Literary couplings : writing couples, collaborators, and the construction of authorship / edited by Marjorie Stone and Judith Thompson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stone, Marjorie, 1951-

Thompson, Judith, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Authorship--Collaboration.

Authorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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's liminal maneuvres in Mary Wollstonecraft's Wrongs of woman / Gerard Goggin

Home at Grasmere again: revising the family in Dove Cottage / Anne D. Wallace

"The body of my father's writings": Sara Coleridge'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's Birthday letters / Sarah Churchwell

Crowding the garrett: women'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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-359) and index.

ISBN:

9780299217631

0299217639

OCLC:

318240545

Publisher Number:

2027/heb08759 hdl