Die vierte Dimension. Wissensdiskurse und Imagination in Alan Moores und Eddie Campbells "From Hell"

Abstract

This article analyzes the role of William Gull, the Jack the Ripper figure in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's "From Hell", as a physician and scientist. A "mad scientist", Gull unites modern sciences and pre-modern forms of science like magic and divination. Lines are drawn to C.H. Hinton's theory of the 4th dimension, and ultimately to Moore's concept of imagination and the comics form.