The Art of the Reprint

Nineteenth-Century Novels in Twentieth-Century Editions

Rosalind Parry

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English

Cambridge University Press
30 March 2023

Prints & printmaking; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

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.

By: Rosalind Parry
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 505g
ISBN: 9781009272049
ISBN 10: 1009272047
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Pages: 215
Publication Date: 30 March 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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.

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

'Parry reminds is that many readers in the early decades of the twentieth century had different expectations. The illustrators she discusses had deeply personal relations with the books they worked on … [Parry] pays these illustrators the tribute of discussing their works as art.' Dinah Birch, Times Literary Supplement