The Art of the Reprint: Nineteenth-Century Novels in Twentieth-Century Editions

by Rosalind Parry

Overview

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 Brontë'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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781009272049
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/30/2023
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Pages:	215
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Rosalind Parry is a writer, teacher, and independent scholar. She was a graduate student and then lecturer at Princeton University, and has also taught at Queens College and the Lander College for Women. Her writing has appeared in Raritan, Literary Imagination, Public Books, T-The New York Times Style Magazine, and The Paris Review Daily. She lives in Brooklyn.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Clare Leighton & Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native; 2: Rockwell Kent & Herman Melville's Moby Dick; 3: Fritz Eichenberg & Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre; 4: Joan Hassall & The Complete Novels of Jane Austen; Coda: The Home Library.

Editorial Reviews

'Parry reminds is that many readers in the early decades of the twentieth century had different expectations. The illustrators she discusses had deeply personal relations with the books they worked on … [Parry] pays these illustrators the tribute of discussing their works as art.' Dinah Birch, Times Literary Supplement

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