{"id":164,"date":"2016-08-31T13:39:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T13:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/?p=164"},"modified":"2016-08-31T14:46:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T14:46:42","slug":"its-me-again-daisy-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/uncategorized\/its-me-again-daisy-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s me again: Daisy Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daisy Miller\u00a0<\/em>is one of my best friends in the literary world. \u00a0I will never forgive Henry James for sacrificing her to the Modernity. Who wouldn’t want to depict her on a book cover? \u00a0She’s practically\u00a0asking\u00a0<\/em>for it.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Daisy Miller is the namesake of her own text, meaning it is easy to want to put her front and center on the cover. \u00a0That makes sense. \u00a0Few of the covers I could see strayed from this tried and true technique. \u00a0Daisy Miller\u00a0<\/em>was originally published in 1879, in magazines and journals. \u00a0Her first trip into a solo book was at a time when books didn’t get pictures on them.<\/p>\n

The oldest cover I could find was a Dover Thrift edition. \u00a0Without Daisy on the front, something similar had to make do: actual daisies.
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This has been the only semi-recent cover I have found without a picture of a porcelain white girl with bright eyes looking directly at the reader. Countless other editions feature girls who could be twins, despite the image originating from different artists, in lacy dresses and carrying parasols, maybe. Of course, it’s interesting to consider how these book covers were chosen. \u00a0Most “classics” editions from a publisher will have a painting featured on the cover; often times those paintings are not related to the text. Sometimes paintings are inspired by novels, but often times a publisher will pick something nice. \u00a0For instance, the following painting is on all kinds of book covers (I’ve seen it all over) without it relating specifically.<\/p>\n

\"Cat1080-pma\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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In the Luxembourg Gardens<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n

John Singer Sargent, American (active London, Florence, and Paris), 1856 – 1925<\/p>\n

 
\nHere are some examples of the most common style of cover:<\/p>\n

The first Penguin Classics edition I found
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\nThe republished Penguin Edition, part of a\u00a0celebration\u00a0<\/em>of Henry James or something
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\nMacMillian has the parasol.
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\nWordsworth is giving me more of an Ann of Green Gables feel, but I guess it works.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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All of these covers could have the same woman, the only difference being the varying amounts of natural lighting. \u00a0Broadview Press takes a different route. I have liked every edition from Broadview I have bought, their cover art never disappoints either. \u00a0Instead of putting Daisy Miller on the front, stay with me here, they put the Colosseum on the cover! \u00a0Not an artistic rendering of the Colosseum either, but a photograph of the Colosseum, complete with a gentleman and lady in the frame. \u00a0The Colosseum is [in a way] a cause of Daisy’s demise, making it an important setting for the text. \u00a0Not only that, but it makes a reader think more about the consequences of the story then\u00a0just\u00a0<\/em>the consequences of Daisy’s. \u00a0So, interesting choice<\/a>, Broadview!<\/p>\n

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I am not sure what route I am going to take on my cover yet. \u00a0I want to try to do something other than just, a woman. \u00a0James is really writing more about culture and culture changing\u00a0around\u00a0<\/em>Daisy, so hopefully I can think of a creative way to show that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daisy Miller\u00a0is one of my best friends in the literary world. \u00a0I will never forgive Henry James for sacrificing her to the Modernity. Who wouldn’t want to depict her on a book cover? \u00a0She’s practically\u00a0asking\u00a0for it.\u00a0 Daisy Miller is the namesake of her own text, meaning it is easy to want to put her front […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}