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Sleight, Simon. "Wavering between Virtue and Vice: Constructions of Youth in Australian Cartoons of the Late-Victorian Era." Drawing the Line. Using Cartoons as Historical Evidence. Eds. Richard Scully and Marian Quartly. Clayton: Monash Univ. ePress, 2009. Added by: joachim (2/9/10, 3:34 PM) Last edited by: joachim (2/12/14, 6:00 PM) |
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| Resource type: Book Chapter Language: en: English DOI: 10.2104/dl090005 BibTeX citation key: Sleight2009 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Australia, Caricature, History, Politics, Randformen des Comics, Youth culture Creators: Quartly, Scully, Sleight Publisher: Monash Univ. ePress (Clayton) Collection: Drawing the Line. Using Cartoons as Historical Evidence |
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This chapter examines issues of embodiment, exploring the ways in which cartoonists have employed metaphors of youthfulness to broach society’s leading questions. Focusing specifically on cartoons concerning Australian topics in the late-Victorian period, the analysis exposes a dichotomy between those who regarded youth as a realm of possibility and those for whom youth represented weakness or failing. Analysing the visual currency of youth casts light not only upon the use of characterisation to convey meaning but also upon a series of contemporary colonial debates ranging from familial domestic dramas to the interactions of a politically incipient Australian nation with its longer-established imperial ‘parents’.
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