Picture Story and Narrative Organisation in Early Nineteenth-Century British Caricature and Comic Strips

Just as it is the task of the literary historian to evaluate in what way and how far the term “novel,” in the nineteenth-century sense, can be applied to an example from the sixteenth or seventeenth century, so it is our task to determine how far the term “narrative,” as exemplified in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century strip, really fits a given sequence from an earlier period.