{"product_id":"rebirth-of-the-english-comic-david-kunzle-9781496833990","title":"Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870","description":"\u003ci\u003eRebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870\u003c\/i\u003e enters deep into an era of comic history that has been entirely neglected. This buried cache of mid-Victorian graphic humor is marvelously rich in pictorial narratives of all kinds. Author David Kunzle calls this period a \"rebirth\" because of the preceding long hiatus in use of the new genre, since the Great Age of Caricature (c.1780-c.1820) when the comic strip was practiced as a sideline. Suddenly in 1847, a new, post-Töpffer comic strip sparks to life in Britain, mostly in periodicals, and especially in \u003ci\u003ePunch, \u003c\/i\u003e where all the best artists of the period participated, if only sporadically: Richard Doyle, John Tenniel, John Leech, Charles Keene, and George Du Maurier. Until now, this aspect of the extensive oeuvre of the well-known masters of the new journal cartoon in \u003ci\u003ePunch\u003c\/i\u003e has been almost completely ignored. Exceptionally, George Cruikshank revived just once in\u003ci\u003e The Bottle, \u003c\/i\u003eindependently, the whole serious, contrasting Hogarthian picture story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Numerous comic strips and picture stories appeared in periodicals other than \u003ci\u003ePunch\u003c\/i\u003e by artists who were likewise largely ignored. Like the \u003ci\u003ePunch \u003c\/i\u003eluminaries, they adopt in semirealistic style sociopolitical subject matter easily accessible to their (lower-)middle-class readership. The topics covered in and out of \u003ci\u003ePunch \u003c\/i\u003eby these strips and graphic novels range from French enemies King Louis-Philippe and Emperor Napoleon III to farcical treatment of major historical events: the Bayeux tapestry (1848), the Great Exhibition of 1851, and the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. Artists explore a great variety of social types, occupations, and situations such as the emigrant, the tourist, fox hunting and Indian big game hunting, dueling, the forlorn lover, the student, the artist, the toothache, the burglar, the paramilitary volunteer, Darwinian animal metamorphoses, and even nightmares. In \u003ci\u003eRebirth of the English Comic Strip\u003c\/i\u003e, Kunzle analyzes these much-neglected works down to the precocious modernist and absurdist scribbles of Marie Duval, Europe's first female professional cartoonist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Kunzle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496833996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496833990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/29\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2022","brand":"David Kunzle","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43993540755711,"sku":"9781496833990","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6e7975b5-e90b-4615-80a0-9e4d24647d6c.jpg?v=1683324901","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rebirth-of-the-english-comic-david-kunzle-9781496833990","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}