GRAPHIC NOVEL Pestilent pains and pleasures
(SelfMadeHero, £15.99) THERE may be several reasons for the growing popularity of graphic novels, among them the speed and ease of accessing a narrative, society’s ever-shortening concentration span or simply that our filmic world has inhibited the flexibility of our imaginations. In Gareth Brookes’s The Dancing Plague, which engages as much as graphic non-fiction as novel, the focus is on the dancing plague that broke out in late mediaeval Strasbourg, when one woman’s uncontrollable dancing developed into a kind of mass epidemic. Not the first, but seemingly the last of its kind — v...
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