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1. Introduction Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey and Stephen Tabachnick; Part I: 2. The Origins of Adult Graphic Narratives: Graphic Literature and the Novel, from Laurence Sterne to Gustave Dore (1760-1851) Denis Mellier; 3. Long-length Serials in the Golden Age of Comic Strips: Production and Reception Daniel Stein and Lukas Etter; 4. Long Length Wordless Books: Frans Masereel, Milt Gross, Lynd Ward, and beyond Barbara Postema; 5. The Postwar "Drawn Novel" Jan Baetens; 6. Harvey Kurtzman and the influence of Mad Magazine Dan Byrne-Smith; 7. When Realism Met Romance: The Negative Zone of Marvel's Silver Age Christopher Pizzino; 8. Beat-era Literature and the Graphic Novel Hugo Frey; 9. Henry Darger, Comics and the Graphic Novel: Contexts and Appropriations Gavin Parkinson; 10. Underground Comix and the Invention of Autobiography, History and Reportage Jean-Paul Gabilliet; 11. Jules Feiffer - Creative and Intellectual Ally of the Graphic Novel (and of Other Critical/Editorial voices) Paul Williams; Part II. 12. Will Eisner and the Making of A Contract With God Michael A. Chaney; 13. Art Spiegelman's Autobiographical Practice from Maus to MetaMaus Erin McGlothlin; 14. Alan Moore: The Making of a Graphic Novelist Christopher Murray; 15. No Future: Punk and the Underground Graphic Novel Benjamin Noys; 16. European literary and genre fiction: the (A Suivre) magazine and the "Adventure" and "Science Fiction" Traditions (Pratt, Tardi, Moebius) Fabrice Leroy; 17. "A Word to You Feminist Women": The Parallel Legacies of Feminism and Underground Comics Susan Kirtley; 18. The Secret Origins of LBGTQ Graphic Novels Justin Hall; 19. US Creators of Color and the Post-Underground Graphic Narrative Renaissance Frederick Luis Aldama; 20. The Influence of Manga on the Graphic Novel Simon Grennan; 21. Sandman, the Ephemeral, and the Permanent Joe Sutliff Sanders; 22. "To Elevate Every Experience into Something Artistic and Exciting": Daniel Clowes's Ghost World Ken Parille; 23. From an Informed Fan Culture to an Academic Field Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith; Part III. 24. Joe Sacco, graphic novelist as Political Journalist Ann Miller; 25. The Discovery of Marjane Satrapi and the Translation of Works from and about the Middle East Chris Reyns and Houssem Lazreg; 26. Chris Oliveros, Drawn and Quarterly, and the Expanded Definition of the Graphic Novel Bart Beaty; 27. The Jewish Graphic Novel Stephen E. Tabachnick; 28. Crime Genre Fiction In The Graphic Novel Andrew J. Kunka; 29. Genre Fiction in the Graphic Novel: The Case of Science Fiction Karin Kukkonen; 30. The Superhero Graphic Novel Darren Harris-Fain; 31. Reinvention of the form: Chris Ware and Experimentalism after RAW Martha Kuhlman; 32. Convergence Cultures: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and the Graphic Novel Daniel Morris; 33. Cinema's Discovery of the Graphic Novel: Mainstream and Independent Adaptation Matthew P. McAllister and Stephanie Orme; 34. The Novel and the Graphic Novel Brannon Costello; 35. E-Graphic Novels Benoit Crucifix and Bjoern-Olav Dozo; 36. World Literature David M. Ball; Bibliography, Index.