The art of the reprint : nineteenth-century novels in twentieth-century editions / Rosalind Parry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parry, Rosalind, 1988- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 141.

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 141

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--Illustrations.

English fiction.

Reprints (Publications)--Publishing--England--History--20th century.

Reprints (Publications).

Reprints (Publications)--Publishing--United States--History--20th century.

Illustration of books--England--20th century.

Illustration of books.

Illustration of books--United States--20th century.

Books and reading--England--History--20th century.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 209 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

A genuinely original work, The Art of the Reprint establishes the reprint as a vital area of study. In tightly curated encounters between extraordinary twentieth-century artists and beloved nineteenth-century novels, Clare Leighton travels to Dorset to minutely observe Thomas Hardy's landscape for a 1929 The Return of the Native (1878); Rockwell Kent channels his many sea journeys into a 1930 Moby Dick (1851); Fritz Eichenberg transposes the churn and isolation of fleeing Nazi Germany onto Expressionistic engravings for Charlotte Bront©±'s Jane Eyre (1847); and Joan Hassall elucidates a bright social world at miniature scale for a 1975 set of The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (1787-1817). Mediators between text and book and author and reader, these artists interpreted these novels and then illustrated their interpretations, stunningly and strangely, in wood, ink, and paper, for everyday readers.

Contents:

Clare Leighton & Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native

Rockwell Kent & Herman Melville's Moby Dick

Fritz Eichenberg & Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

Joan Hassall & The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

Coda: The Home Library

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Mar 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-009-27201-2

1-009-27202-0

1-009-27203-9

OCLC:

1374423358