The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel

Cambridge University Press, 10/4/2018
EAN 9781107171411, ISBN10: 1107171415

Hardcover, 690 pages, 24.1 x 15.9 x 3.2 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel provides the complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in the twentieth and twenty-first century. It includes original discussion on the current state of the graphic novel and analyzes how American, European, Middle Eastern, and Japanese renditions have shaped the field. Thirty-five leading scholars and historians unpack both forgotten trajectories as well as the famous key episodes, and explain how comics transitioned from being marketed as children's entertainment. Essays address the masters of the form, including Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore, and Marjane Satrapi, and reflect on their publishing history as well as their social and political effects. This ambitious history offers an extensive, detailed and expansive scholarly account of the graphic novel, and will be a key resource for scholars and students.

1. Introduction Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey and Stephen E. Tabachnick
Part I
2. The origins of adult graphic narratives
graphic literature and the novel, from Laurence Sterne to Gustave Doré (1760–1851) Denis Mellier
3. Long-length serials in the Golden Age of comic strips
production and reception Daniel Stein and Lukas Etter
4. Long length wordless books
Frans Masereel, Milt Gross, Lynd Ward, and beyond Barbara Postema
5. The postwar 'drawn novel' Jan Baetens
6. Harvey Kurtzman and the influence of Mad magazine Dan Byrne-Smith
7. When realism met romance
the negative zone of Marvel's Silver Age Christopher Pizzino
8. Beat-era literature and the graphic novel Hugo Frey
9. Henry Darger, comics and the graphic novel
contexts and appropriations Gavin Parkinson
10. Underground comix and the invention of autobiography, history and reportage Jean-Paul Gabilliet
11. Jules Feiffer – creative and intellectual ally of the graphic novel (and of other critical/editorial voices) Paul Williams
Part II
12. Will Eisner and the making of a contract with God Michael A. Chaney
13. Art Spiegelman's autobiographical practice from Maus to MetaMaus Erin McGlothlin
14. Alan Moore
the making of a graphic novelist Christopher Murray
15. No future
punk and the underground graphic novel Benjamin Noys
16. European literary and genre fiction
the (À Suivre) magazine and the 'adventure' and 'science fiction' traditions (Pratt, Tardi, Moebius) Fabrice Leroy
17. 'A word to you feminist women'
the parallel legacies of feminism and underground comics Susan Kirtley
18. The secret origins of LBGTQ graphic novels Justin Hall
19. US creators of color and the post-underground graphic narrative renaissance Frederick Luis Aldama
20. The influence of Manga on the graphic novel Simon Grennan
21. Sandman, the ephemeral, and the permanent Joe Sutliff Sanders
22. 'To elevate every experience into something artistic and exciting'
Daniel Clowes's Ghost World Ken Parille
23. From an informed fan culture to an academic field Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith
Part III. 24. Joe Sacco, graphic novelist as political journalist Ann Miller
25. The discovery of Marjane Satrapi and the translation of works from and about the Middle East Chris Reyns and Houssem Lazreg
26. Chris Oliveros, drawn and quarterly, and the expanded definition of the graphic novel Bart Beaty
27. The Jewish graphic novel Stephen E. Tabachnick
28. Crime genre fiction in the graphic novel Andrew J. Kunka
29. Genre fiction in the graphic novel
the case of science fiction Karin Kukkonen
30. The superhero graphic novel Darren Harris-Fain
31. Reinvention of the form
Chris Ware and experimentalism after Raw Martha Kuhlman
32. Convergence cultures
modern and contemporary poetry and the graphic novel Daniel Morris
33. Cinema's discovery of the graphic novel
mainstream and independent adaptation Matthew P. McAllister and Stephanie Orme
34. The novel and the graphic novel Brannon Costello
35. E-graphic novels Benoît Crucifix and Björn-Olav Dozo
36. World literature David M. Ball
Bibliography
Index.