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

di Rosalind Parry (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2023

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.

• Autore: Rosalind Parry
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 215 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• Peso: 505 gr.
• EAN: 9781009272049

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