Artistic liberties : American literary realism and graphic illustration, 1880-1905 / Adam Sonstegard.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reading Rivalries in Illustrated Literary Realism; 1. Kemble and Twain: Sketching ""Truths"" within the Minstrel Masquerade; 2. Kemble and Stowe: Taking Liberties with Slave Imagery; 3. Loeb and Twain: Returning to the Illustrated Scene of the Crime; 4. Newell and Crane: Keeping Close to a Personal Honesty of Vision; 5. Kemble and Dunbar: Manipulating the Masks of Folks from Dixie; 6. Wenzell and Wharton: Marketing 'The House of Mirth's' Disigns; Coda. Owen, Skeete, and Hopkins: Countering the Caricatures of Literary Realism NotesWorks Cited; Index.

Artistic Liberties is a landmark study of the illustrations that originally accompanied now-classic works of American literary realism and the ways editors, authors, and illustrators vied for authority over the publications. 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.

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