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Author:

Parry, Rosalind, 1988- author.

Title:

The art of the reprint : nineteenth-century novels in twentieth-century editions / Rosalind Parry.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

xiii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

English fiction--19th century--Illustrations.
Reprints (Publications)--History--England--History--20th century.
Reprints (Publications)--History--United States--History--20th century.
Illustration of books--England--20th century.
Illustration of books--United States--20th century.
Books and reading--England--History--20th century.
Books and reading--United States--History--20th century.

Notes:

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 Brontë'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

ISBN:

1009272047
9781009272049

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1340032616

LCCN:

2022038893

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)