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The Art of the Reprint Rosalind Parry

The Art of the Reprint By Rosalind Parry

The Art of the Reprint by Rosalind Parry


Summary

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 extraordinary twentieth-century illustrators. With biographical, archival, and art- and literary-historical sources, this is a richly-illustrated account of how artists reinvent canons for the general reader.

The Art of the Reprint Summary

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

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 Bronte'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.

About Rosalind Parry

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 Bronte's Jane Eyre; 4: Joan Hassall & The Complete Novels of Jane Austen; Coda: The Home Library.

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NPB9781009272049
9781009272049
1009272047
The Art of the Reprint: Nineteenth-Century Novels in Twentieth-Century Editions by Rosalind Parry
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2023-03-30
215
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