Remembered Reading: Memory, Comics and Post-War Constructions of British Girlhood

Gibson, Mel (2015) Remembered Reading: Memory, Comics and Post-War Constructions of British Girlhood. Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels, 3 . Leuven University Press. ISBN 9789462700307

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Abstract

A reader’s history exploring the forgotten genre of girls’ comics. Girls’ comics were a major genre from the 1950s onwards in Britain. The most popular titles sold between 800,000 and a million copies a week. However, this genre was slowly replaced by magazines which now dominate publishing for girls. Remembered Reading is a readers’ history which explores the genre, and memories of those comics, looking at how and why this rich history has been forgotten. The research is based around both analysis of what the titles contained and interviews with women about their childhood comic reading. In addition, it also looks at the other comic books that British girls engaged with, including humour comics and superhero titles. In doing so it looks at intersections of class, girlhood, and genre, and puts comic reading into historical, cultural, and educational context.

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	L900 Others in Social studies Q200 Comparative Literary studies
Department:	Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing
Related URLs:	Publisher
Depositing User:	Becky Skoyles
Date Deposited:	26 Jun 2018 09:28
Last Modified:	26 Jun 2018 09:28
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/34706

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