Engagements with Graphic Literature

Michael Demson is an Assistant Professor of English at Sam Houston State University, where he teaches courses in Romanticism, World Literature, and Literary Theory. He has published articles in European Romantic Review, Romanticism, the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, and his own graphic novel, Masks of Anarchy, was published by Verso in 2013.

Introduction

Chapter I: Before the rise of the book

Chapter II: Woodblock printing, the printing press, and the rise of the book market

Chapter III: Graphic narrative in the era of market-consciousness and imperialism

Chapter IV: Graphic narrative in the age of automation and newsprint

Chapter V: The post-modern graphic narrative in late capitalism

Conclusion: Graphic narrative in a post-colonial World