The Art of the Reprint

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-27204-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 215 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 481 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

The Art of the Reprint is a vivid and engaging history of the nineteenth-century novel as it was re-imagined for everyday readers by four extraordinary twentieth-century illustrators. It focuses especially on four reprints: a 1929 edition of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (1878) with engravings by Clare Leighton, a 1930 edition of Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851) with images by Rockwell Kent, a 1943 edition of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) with woodblocks by Fritz Eichenberg, and a complete set of Jane Austen's novels (1786-1817) illustrated from 1957 to 1974 by Joan Hassall. Taken together, these reprints are indicative of a legacy crafted from historical distance, through personal, political, and artistic circumstance, and for a new century. With biographical, archival, and art- and literary-historical sources as well as close readings of images and texts, this is a richly illustrated account of how artists reinvent canons for the general reader.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parry, Rosalind

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Parry, Rosalind
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.