Description: The first book to explore the lasting influence of Romanticism on contemporary comics monsters
Brief description: Maaheen Ahmed is associate professor of comparative literature at Ghent University, Belgium, and a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO). Ahmed is author of Monstrous Imaginaries: The Legacy of Romanticism in Comics and Openness of Comics: Generating Meaning within Flexible Structures, both published by University Press of Mississippi. She has also published articles in and edited special issues for European Comic Art; Authorship; SCAN: Journal of Media Arts Culture; European Journal of American Studies; and International Journal of Comic Art.
Review Quotes: Ahmed's Monstrous Imaginaries offers one of the few sustained analyses of the Romantic legacy in the popular visual arts of the late-twentieth century. The monograph will doubtless make a significant contribution to the scholarly understanding of comic books and graphic novels, as part of an enduring and influential Romantic cultural heritage.--Will Kitchen "Romance, Revolution & Reform"