Drawing in Drag by Marie Duval
- Submitting institution
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University of Chester
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-10/621747
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Book Works
- ISBN
- 9781906012984
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Output
The output is Drawing in Drag by Marie Duval (ISBN 978-1906012984), a 42 page graphic novel, drawn in the style of nineteenth-century cartoonist Marie Duval.
Research process
During the nineteenth century, writers and artists in the leisure publishing industries frequently wrote and drew under pseudonyms. They did this to either project a saleable identity or to dissociate themselves from their outputs. This included the practice of pseudonymously changing gender.
In 2018, the researcher discovered a book illustrated by nineteenth-century cartoonist and actor Marie Duval, under the male pseudonym ‘Ambrose Clarke’.
This discovery occasioned a research question: what (and how) would Duval draw, if she revived in the Manchester of 2018? The research required a comparison of the nineteenth and twenty-first-century city, an analysis of Duval’s urban topics and her visual style, with an analysis of re-gendering in the leisure industries. The output provided a new resource for historic and stylistic analysis of Duval’s drawings, for analysis of re-gendering in leisure cultures, a demonstration of historiography as a method of analysis and the wide public and academic dissemination of insights.
Research insights
The research demonstrates the capacity of historiography as a method of analysis. It indexes the significance of pseudonymous re-gendering, as a strategy for exciting audience interest. It makes an analytical comparison between leisure industries in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. It reveals a previously unknown aspect of Duval’s work (her use of a male pseudonym) and establishes its historic significance.
Dissemination (see Supplementary information above)
The output Drawing in Drag by Marie Duval substantiated an international programme of academic dissemination: authoring one academic book and one conference paper. The output also substantiated an international programme of public dissemination: eight public exhibitions, one public event, one public lecture, seven public workshops and 3 items of media commentary.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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