Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore: Critical Essays on the Graphic Novels

Joseph Michael Sommers

ISBN 10: 0786464534 / ISBN 13: 9780786464531

Published by McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore: Critical Essays on the Graphic Novels
• Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786464534
• ISBN 13: 9780786464531
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Alan Moore, the idiosyncratic, controversial and often shocking writer of such works as Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and V for Vendetta, remains a benchmark for readers of comics and graphic novels. This collection investigates the political, social, cultural, and sexual ideologies that emerge from his seminal work, Lost Girls, and demonstrates how these ideologies relate to his larger body of work. Framed by Moore's insistence upon deconstructing the myth of the superhero, each essay attends to the form and content of Moore's comics under the rubric of his pervasive metaphor of the "politics of sexuality/the sexing of politics."

About the Author

Todd A. Comer is an associate professor of English at Defiance College in Ohio and has published in such journals as SubStance, the Journal of Narrative Theory, and the Journal of Modern Literature.

Joseph Michael Sommers is an associate professor of English at Central Michigan University. He is the coauthor of two McFarland books and has published essays on such topics as Judy Blume, Spider-Man, and The Chronicles of Narnia.