[ebooks] Euthanasia - A crime? by Yagnesh Chokasi in Arts-Photography

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Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of imagesmdash;illustrated books; periodicals; cartoons; comics; and ephemeramdash;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 sets out to explore the relationship between Victorian graphic texts and todayrsquo;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 under explored.In this collection; scholars from literary studies; cultural studies; and art history consider contemporary worksmdash;Alan Moorersquo;s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; Moto Naokorsquo;s Lady Victorian; and Edward Goreyrsquo;s Gashlycrumb Tinies; among othersmdash;alongside their antecedents; from Punchrsquo;s 1897 Jubilee issue to Alice in Wonderland and more. They build on previous work on Neo-Victorianism to affirm that the past not only influences but converses with the present.Contributors: Christine Ferguson; Kate Flint; Anna Maria Jones; Linda K. Hughes; Heidi Kaufman; Brian Maidment; Rebecca N. Mitchell; Jennifer Phegley; Monika Pietrzak-Franger; Peter W. Sinnema; Jessica Straley