Literary Couplings : Writing Couples, Collaborators, and the Construction of Authorship
Marjorie Stone (Editor), Judith Thompson (Editor)
Challenges the traditional focus on solitary genius by examining the diversity of collaborations from the early modern to the post-modern period. This work 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.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Prologue: signs of the times: five snapshots of contemporary authorship
Contexts and heterotexts: a theoretical and historical introduction / Marjorie Stone & Judith Thompson
I. Early modern "coupled worke"
"Warpe" and "webb" in the Sidney Psalms: the "coupled worke" of the Countess of Pembroke and Sir Philip Sidney / Patricia Demers
Constructing an adventure and negotiating for narrative control: Johnson and Boswell in the Hebrides / John B. Radner
II. Romantic joint labour
Editing Minervas: William Godwin{u2019}s liminal maneuvres in Mary Wollstonecraft{u2019}s Wrongs of woman / Gerard Goggin
Home at Grasmere again: revising the family in Dove Cottage / Anne D. Wallace
"The body of my father{u2019}s writings": Sara Coleridge{u2019}s genial labour / Alison Hickey
III. Victorian complementarities and crosscurrents
"Singing song for song": the Brownings "in the poetic relation" / Corinne Davies & Marjorie Stone
Collaboration and collusion: two Victorian writing couples and their orientalist texts / Jill Matus
"An uninterrupted current": homoeroticism and collaborative authorship in Teleny / Robert Gray & Christopher Keep
IV. Literary modernity: mythmakers and muses
Courting the Muse: Dorothy Wellesley and W.B. Yeats / Lisa Harper
Not Elizabeth to his Ralegh: Laura Riding, Robert Graves and origins of the white goddess / Amber Vogel
V. Writing back: postcolonial and contemporary contestation and retrospection
Competing versions of a love story: Mircea Eliade and Maitreyi Devi / Rebecca Carpenter
"Your sentence was mine too": reading Sylvia Plath in Ted Hughes{u2019}s Birthday letters / Sarah Churchwell
Crowding the garrett: women{u2019}s collaborative writing and the problematics of space / Lorraine York
Taking joint stock: a critical survey of scholarship on literary couples and collaboration / Marjorie Stone & Judith Thompson