Artistic Liberties: American Literary Realism and Graphic Illustration, 1880-1905

A landmark study of the illustrations that originally accompanied now-classic works of American literary realism

Though today we commonly read major works of nineteenth-century American literature in unillustrated paperbacks or anthologies, many of them first appeared as magazine serials, accompanied by ample illustrations that sometimes made their way into the serials’ first printings as books. The graphic artists creating these illustrations often visually addressed questions that the au...