Artistic Liberties: American Literary Realism and Graphic Illustration, 1880-1905

by Adam Sonstegard

A landmark study of the illustrations that originally accompanied now-classic works of American literary realism Though today we commonly read major works of nineteenth-century American literature in unillustrated paperbacks or anthologies, many of them first appeared as magazine serials, accompanied by ample illustrations that sometimes made their way into the serials' first printings as books. The graphic artists creating these illustrations often...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817318054
• ISBN13: 9780817318055
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"