Buch, Englisch, 215 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 481 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Buch, Englisch, 215 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 481 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
ISBN: 978-1-009-27204-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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.
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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.