Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-205) and index.
Contents:
Clare Leighton & Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native -- Rockwell Kent & Herman Melville's Moby Dick -- Fritz Eichenberg & Charlotte Brontèˆ's Jane Eyre -- Joan Hassall & The Complete Novels of Jane Austen -- Coda: The Home Library
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 141
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