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Collaborators in literary America, 1870-1920 / by Susanna Ashton.
Van Pelt Library PS217.C64 A84 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ashton, Susanna, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Gilded age.
- Twain, Mark.
- Grant, Robert, 1852-1940. King's men.
- Grant, Robert.
- Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900--Authorship.
- Warner, Charles Dudley.
- Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929--Authorship.
- Matthews, Brander.
- Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929.
- Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900.
- Whole family.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Authorship--Collaboration--History--19th century.
- Authorship.
- Authorship--Collaboration.
- History.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Authorship--Collaboration--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
- Summary:
- Collaborators in Literary America argues that the collaborative novels of the 19th and 20th centuries were singularly instrumental to the evolving nature of authorship and its relationship to the modern literary marketplace. More than just a gimmick, these novels (there were several hundred published at the turn of the century), were a serious attempt to work through the anxieties authors faced in an evermore competitive and businesslike market. Deeply contextualized within book history, political culture, and labor practices, the issues surrounding collaborative production of such idiosyncratic writers as Henry James, Mark Twain, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and William Dean Howells, demonstrate that in union there was strength.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Collaborative Age 1
- Chapter 1 Where the Twain did Meet
- The Gilded Age of American Authorship 25
- Chapter 2 The King's Men, or a Parable of Democratic Authorship 55
- Chapter 3 Clubbing, Conversing, and Collaborating: Brander Matthews as Professional Man of Letters 91
- Chapter 4 Veribly a Purple Cow: The Whole Family and the Collaborative Search for Coherence 127.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403962170
- OCLC:
- 51518365
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