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

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

Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series

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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.

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