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Title The Cambridge history of the graphic novel / edited by Jan Baetens, University of Leuven ; Hugo Frey, University of Chichester ; Stephen E. Tabachnick, University of Memphis
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 677 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction / Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey, and Stephen E. Tabachnick -- Part I: 1799-1978. The origins of adult graphic narratives : graphic literature and the novel, from Laurence Sterne to Gustave Doré (1760-1851) / Denis Mellier ; Long-length serials in the golden age of comic strips : production and reception / Daniel Stein and Lukas Etter ; Long-length wordless books : Frans Masereel, Milt Gross, Lynd Ward, and beyond / Barbara Postema ; The postwar "drawn novel" / Jan Baetens ; Harvey Kurtzman and the influence of Mad magazine / Dan Byrne-Smith ; When realism met romance : the negative zone of Marvel's silver age / Christopher Pizzino ; Beat-era literature and the graphic novel / Hugo Frey ; Henry Darger, comics, and the graphic novel : contexts and appropriations / Gavin Parkinson ; Underground comix and the invention of autobiography, history, and reportage / Jean-Paul Gabilliet ; Jules Feiffer, creative and intellectual ally of the graphic novel (and of other critical/editorial voices) / Paul Williams -- Part II: 1978-2000. Will Eisner and the making of A Contract with God / Michael A. Chaney ; Art Spiegelman's autobiographical practice from Maus to MetaMaus / Erin McGlothlin ; Alan Moore : the making of a graphic novelist / Christopher Murray ; No future : punk and the underground graphic novel / Benjamin Noys ; European literary and genre fiction : the (à suivre) magazine and the "adventure" and "science fiction" traditions (Pratt, Tardi, Moebius) / Fabrice Leroy ; "A word to you feminist women" : the parallel legacies of feminism and underground comics / Susan Kirtley ; The secret origins of LGBTQ graphic novels / Justin Hall ; US creators of color and the postunderground graphic narrative renaissance / Frederick Luis Aldama ; The influence of manga on the graphic novel / Simon Grennan ; Sandman, the ephemeral, and the permanent / Joe Sutliff Sanders ; "To elevate every experience into something artistic and exciting" : Daniel Clowes' Ghost World / Ken Parille ; From an informed fan culture to an academic field / Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith -- Part III: 2000 to the present day. Joe Sacco, graphic novelist as political journalist / Ann Miller ; The discovery of Marjane Satrapi and the translation of works from and about the Middle East / Chris Reyns-Chikuma and Houssem Ben Lazreg ; Chris Oliveros, Drawn and Quarterly, and the expanded definition of the graphic novel / Bart Beaty ; The Jewish graphic novel / Stephen E. Tabachnick ; Crime genre fiction in the graphic novel / Andrew J. Kunka ; Genre fiction in the graphic novel : the case of science fiction / Karin Kukkonen ; The superhero graphic novel / Darren Harris-Fain ; Reinvention of the form : Chris Ware and experimentalism after Raw / Martha Kuhlman ; Convergence cultures : modern and contemporary poetry and the graphic novel / Daniel Morris ; Cinema's discovery of the graphic novel : mainstream and independent adaptation / Matthew P. McAllister and Stephanie Orme ; The novel and the graphic novel / Brannon Costello ; E-graphic novels / Benoît Crucifix and Björn-Olav Dozo ; World literature / David M. Ball
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 609-657) and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Graphic novels -- History and criticism
Comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism
Form Electronic book
Author Baetens, Jan, editor
Frey, Hugo, editor
Tabachnick, Stephen Ely, editor
Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9781316759981 (electronic bk.)
1316759989 (electronic bk.)