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oapen-20.500.12657-253352021-11-10T07:57:13Z Drawing on the Victorians Jones, Anna Mitchell, Rebecca Literature Victorian studies art history comics and graphic novel culture literary studies Victorian Late 19th-century Britain experienced an explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to a mass readership. This Victorian visual turn prefigured the present-day impact of the Internet on how images are produced and shared, both driving and reflecting the visual culture of its time. From this starting point, Drawing on the Victorians explores the relationship between Victorian graphic texts and today’s steampunk, manga, and other neo-Victorian genres that emulate and reinterpret their predecessors. Neo-Victorianism is a flourishing worldwide phenomenon, but one whose relationship with the texts from which it takes its inspiration remains underexplored. 2019-03-29 23:55 2020-03-14 03:00:35 2020-04-01T10:34:41Z 2020-04-01T10:34:41Z 2015-12-15 book 1004764 OCN: 1100537100 9780821445877 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25335 eng application/pdf n/a 1004764.pdf Ohio University Press 102795 907a4342-54b7-4bcc-9208-2d58505573d3 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780821445877 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 102795 KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Late 19th-century Britain experienced an explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to a mass readership. This Victorian visual turn prefigured the present-day impact of the Internet on how images are produced and shared, both driving and reflecting the visual culture of its time. From this starting point, Drawing on the Victorians explores the relationship between Victorian graphic texts and today’s steampunk, manga, and other neo-Victorian genres that emulate and reinterpret their predecessors. Neo-Victorianism is a flourishing worldwide phenomenon, but one whose relationship with the texts from which it takes its inspiration remains underexplored.
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