Literary Couplings: Writing Couples, Collaborators, and the Construction of AuthorshipMarjorie Stone, Judith Thompson Univ of Wisconsin Press, 02.07.2007 - 392 Seiten This innovative collection challenges the traditional focus on solitary genius by examining the rich diversity of literary couplings and collaborations from the early modern to the postmodern period. Literary Couplings explores some of the best-known literary partnerships—from the Sidneys to Boswell and Johnson to Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes—and also includes lesser-known collaborators such as Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland. The essays place famous authors such as Samuel Coleridge, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats in new contexts; reassess overlooked members of writing partnerships; and throw new light on texts that have been marginalized due to their collaborative nature. By integrating historical studies with authorship theory, Literary Couplings goes beyond static notions of the writing "couple" to explore literary couplings created by readers, critics, historians, and publishers as well as by writers themselves, thus expanding our understanding of authorship. |
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A Theoretical and Historical Introduction | 3 |
Early Modern Coupled Worke | 39 |
The Coupled Worke of the Countess of Pembroke and Sir Philip Sidney | 41 |
Johnson and Boswell in the Hebrides | 59 |
Romantic Joint Labor | 79 |
William Godwins Liminal Maneuvers in Mary Wollstonecrafts Wrongs of Woman | 81 |
Revising the Family in Dove Cottage | 100 |
Sara Coleridges Genial Labor | 124 |
Literary Modernity Mythmakers and Muses | 209 |
Dorothy Wellesley and W B Yeats | 211 |
Laura Riding Robert Graves and Origins of the White Goddess | 229 |
Writing Back Postcolonial and Contemporary Contestation and Retrospection | 241 |
Mircea Eliade and Maitreyi Devi | 243 |
Reading Sylvia Plath in Ted Hughess Birthday Letters | 260 |
Womens Collaborative Writing and the Problematics of Space | 288 |
A Critical Survey of Scholarship on Literary Couples and Collaboration | 309 |
Victorian Complementarities and Crosscurrents | 149 |
The Brownings in the Poetic Relation | 151 |
Two Victorian Writing Couples and Their Orientalist Texts | 175 |
Homoeroticism and Collaborative Authorship in Teleny | 193 |
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Contributors | 361 |
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