Literary Couplings: Writing Couples, Collaborators, and the Construction of Authorship

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Marjorie Stone, Judith Thompson
Univ of Wisconsin Press, 23.08.2006 - 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.

 

Inhalt

I Early Modern Coupled Worke
39
II Romantic Joint Labor
79
III Victorian Complementarities and Crosscurrents
149
Mythmakers and Muses
209
Postcolonial and Contemporary Contestation and Retrospection
241
A Critical Survey of Scholarship on Literary Couples and Collaboration Marjorie Stone Judith Thompson
309
Bibliography
335
Contributors
361
Index
365
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Autoren-Profil (2006)

Marjorie Stone is assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and associate professor of English and women's studies at Dalhousie University. Judith Thompson is associate professor of English at Dalhousie University.

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