"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"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.