Collaborative writing in the long nineteenth century : sympathetic partnerships and artistic creation / Heather Bozant Witcher.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Witcher, Heather Bozant, 1988- author.

Series:

• Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 135.
• Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 135

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)--History--19th century.
• Authorship--Collaboration--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Bringing the collaborative process to life through an array of examples, Heather Witcher shows that sympathetic co-creation is far more than the mere act of writing together. While foregrounding the material aspects of collaboration - hands uniting on the page, blank space left for fellow contributors, the writing and exchanging of drafts - this study also illuminates its social aspects and its reliance on Victorian liberalism: dialogue, the circulation of correspondence, the lived experience of collaboration, and, on a less material plane, transhistorical collaborations with figures of the past. Witcher takes a broad approach to these partnerships and, in doing so, challenges traditional expectations surrounding the nature of authorship itself, not least its typical classification as a solitary activity. Within this new framework, collaboration enables the titles of 'coauthor,' 'influencer,' 'editor,' 'critic,' and 'inspiration' to coexist. This book celebrates the plurality of collaboration and underscores the truly social nature of nineteenth-century writing.

Contents:

• Adam Smith's liberal sympathy
• "O you pretty Pecksie!": the collaborative process of Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Typographical adventures : William Morris, community, and the Kelmscott
• Sim and Puss: the sympathetic mirroring of Michael Field
• Towards empathy: Vernon Lee's psychological aesthetics.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781009072731 (ebook)

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