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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."
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Polarizing of Alan Moore's Sexual Politics
TODD A. COMER and JOSEPH MICHAEL SOMMERS
Part I: The "Low Form": Moore and the Complex Relationships of the Comic Book Superhero
1. Libidinal Ecologies: Eroticism and Environmentalism in Swamp Thing
BRIAN JOHNSON
2. Green Love, Red Sex: The Conflation of the Flora and the Flesh in Swamp Thing
MATTHEW CANDELARIA
3. When "One Bad Day" Becomes One Dark Knight: Love, Madness, and Obsession in the Adaptation of The Killing Joke into Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight
JOSEPH MICHAEL SOMMERS
4. "Don't laugh, Daddy, we're in love": Mockery, Fulfillment, and Subversion of Popular Romance Conventions in The Ballad of Halo Jones
KATE FLYNN
5. The Love of Nationalism, Internationalism and Sacred Space in Watchmen
KARL MARTIN
Part II: The Vicious Cabaret of Love, Sexual Desire ... and Torture
6. Theorizing Sexual Domination in From Hell and Lost Girls Jack the Ripper versus Wonderlands of Desire
ZOË BRIGLEY-THOMPSON
7. "Do you understand how I have loved you?" Terrible Loves and Divine Visions in From Hell
MERVI MIETTINEN
8. Body Politics: Unearthing an Embodied Ethics in V for Vendetta
TODD A. COMER
9. The Poles of Wantonness: Male Asexuality in Alan Moore's Film Adaptations
EVAN TORNER
10. Reflections on the Looking Glass: Adaptation as Sex and Psychosis in Lost Girls
NICO DICECCO
Part III: Victorian Sexualities and the Écriture Féminine: Women Writing and the Women of Writing
11. "Avast, Land-Lubbers!" Reading Lost Girls as a Post-Sadeian Text
K. A. LAITY
12. The Undying Fire: Erotic Love as Divine Grace in Promethea
CHRISTINE HOFF KRAEMER
13. "It came out of nothing except our love": Queer Desire and Transcendental Love in Promethea
PAUL PETROVIC
14. Self-Conscious Sexuality in Promethea
ORION USSNER KIDDER
15. I Remain Your Own: Epistolamory in "The New Adventures of Fanny Hill"
LLOYD ISAAC VAYO
Afterword: Disgust with the Revolution
ANNALISA DI LIDDO
Selected Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
