Marie Duval presents Ally Sloper: the female cartoonist and popular theatre in London 1869-85.

早期职业研究员西蒙·格伦南博士，与著名学者罗杰·萨宾博士和朱利安·韦特博士，将开展和传播新的研究，这将引起公众的注意，并提供一个严格的学术背景，以了解玛丽·杜瓦尔在伦敦，1869年至1885年之间重新发明的英国漫画。他们将制作一个国际巡回展览，一个开放的在线数据库，一个学术出版物和3个期刊论文，与市政厅图书馆，泰特英国美术馆和插图节，柏林合作。世纪英国幽默期刊上的漫画作品完全是男性的活动，只有一个例外。玛丽·杜瓦尔是一位受欢迎的舞台剧演员，她的丈夫查尔斯·罗斯是一份讽刺伦敦期刊《朱迪》的编辑。在1869年至1885年之间，杜瓦尔为朱迪画了100多页漫画，从根本上发展了罗斯创造的一个名叫艾莉·斯洛珀的角色，一个害羞的伦敦人。杜瓦尔进入出版业使她能够通过定期连载开创一个绘制故事世界的发展，创造新的读者对形式和内容的期望，以便读者以新的方式使用她的漫画。她还在流行戏剧中表演，以“男主角”的角色颠覆性别期望而闻名。杜瓦尔的作品是通俗剧，这是世纪占主导地位的戏剧形式。她的叙事画展示了这种做法的影响，在两个地带的形式和读者理解的机制。Sloper地带利用与受过训练的插画家相矛盾的技巧。她没有受过任何训练，杜瓦尔的绘画作品的可见速度和活力成为另一种喜剧手段，传达了斯洛珀的身体喜剧世界中令人兴奋的，一次性的，甚至是大胆的性格。由于她使用的技巧和阅读它们的环境，她的漫画创造的世界不同于19世纪的任何其他英国绘画叙事。杜瓦尔根据读者使用漫画的新方式，用英语重新创造了漫画媒介，但没有人试图研究或呈现杜瓦尔在期刊出版的男性环境中作为女画家/女演员的活动，与她发展新的漫画媒介有关。既没有研究世纪的情节剧与杜瓦尔的绘画相比的技巧、语境和接受情况，也没有分析在这个新的跨媒体时代，幽默期刊上不同的叙事绘画风格对读者的影响范围。我们的研究方法将采用经验和理论相结合的知识生产方法，超越经验数据来理解社会结构，既承认又背离关于基本结构的理论，寻求揭示先前接受的知识和实践的历史偶然性。产出将包括a）一个新的开放式在线数据库（一个图像目录raisonné）的杜瓦尔的斜坡地带主办的切斯特大学，B）一个公共巡回展览显示在泰特英国和说明柏林，c）一份学术出版物和d）中期产出，包括三篇在英国、法国和美国期刊上发表的同行评审期刊文章。经验丰富的研究项目负责人和知名学者Deborah韦恩教授将指导Grennan博士。

Early Career researcher Dr Simon Grennan, with established scholars Dr Roger Sabin and Dr Julian Waite, will undertake and disseminate new research that will bring to public attention and deliver a rigorous academic context for understanding the re-invention of the English comic strip by Marie Duval in London, between 1869-85. They will produce an international Touring Exhibition, an open-access Online Database, an Academic Publication and 3 Journal Papers, in partnership with The Guildhall Library, Tate Britain and Illustrative Festival, Berlin. The production of 19th century English comics in humour periodicals was an exclusively male activity, with one exception. Marie Duval was a popular stage actress whose husband, Charles Ross, edited Judy, a satirical London periodical. Between 1869-1885, Duval drew over 100 comic strip pages for Judy that radically developed a character created by Ross named Ally Sloper, a work-shy ne'er-do-well Londoner. Duval's access to the publishing business allowed her to pioneer the development of a drawn story-world through regular serialisation, creating new reader expectations of both form and content, so that readers used her strips in a new way.She also acted in popular plays, famously subverting gender expectations in the role of 'leading man'. Duval worked in the genre of melodrama, the dominant theatre practice of the 19th century. Her narrative drawing shows the influence of this practice, in both the form of the strips and the mechanisms for reader comprehension.The Sloper strips utilise depictive techniques that contradict those of a trained illustrator. She had no training, and the visible speed and vigour of facture of Duval's drawings became another comedic device, communicating the exciting, disposable and even daring character of Sloper's world of physical comedy.As a result of the depictive techniques that she employed and the milieu in which they were read, the world that her strips create is unlike any other English drawn narrative in the 19th century. Duval recreated the comics medium in English on the basis of the new ways that readers made use of them.There have been no attempts to study or present Duval's activity as a draughtswoman/female actor in the male environment of periodical publishing, relative to her development of the new comics medium. Neither has there been any study of the techniques, contexts and reception of 19th century melodrama compared to Duval's drawings, nor analysis of the range of impacts upon readers of different narrative drawing styles in humour periodicals in this period of new cross-media fertilisation.Our research method will adopt a mixture of empirical and theoretical approaches to knowledge production, looking beyond empirical data to understand social structures, both recognising and departing from theories about underlying structures, seeking to reveal the historical contingency of previously accepted knowledge and practices.Outputs will comprise a) a new open access Online Database (an image catalogue raisonné) of Duval's Sloper strips hosted by the University of Chester, b) a public Touring Exhibition displayed at Tate Britain and Illustrative Berlin, c) an Academic Publication and d) interim outputs comprising three peer-reviewed Journal Articles in British, French and American journals.Experienced research project leader and established scholar Professor Deborah Wynne will mentor Dr Grennan.