ONLY $9.90 DELIVERY INFO

Close Notification

Your cart does not contain any items

The Art of the Reprint

Nineteenth-Century Novels in Twentieth-Century Editions

Rosalind Parry

$65.95   $55.69

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

QTY:

English
Cambridge University Press
21 August 2025
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:  
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
ISBN:   9781009272056
ISBN 10:   1009272055
Series:   Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Pages:   231
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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 'Parry expertly reads illustrations, which are well produced and well chosen … Her prose is engaging and easy to follow. The coda offers insights on the future of the reprint in a digital age where books face fierce competition from other forms of media.' Catherine J. Golden, Victorian Studies


See Also