Late Victorian literary collaboration : authorship, co-authorship, and popular fiction / Annachiara Cozzi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cozzi, Annachiara, author.

Series:

Liverpool English texts and studies ; 102.

Liverpool English texts and studies ; 102

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship--Collaboration--History--19th century.

Authorship.

Physical Description:

xii, 297 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Liverpool [England] : Liverpool University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"As a result of the rapidly growing literary market, the years between 1870 and the turn of the century witnessed an unprecedented flow of collaboratively written novels. In the 1890s, co-authorship became a craze, with literary partnerships multiplying and fiction co-written by twenty and more authors appearing in the pages of popular magazines. By 1900, however, the trend had already reversed, and it quickly slipped into oblivion. 'Late Victorian literary collaboration' investigates the factors that made the period so conducive to collaboration, tracing the reasons for its success and subsequent decline. Drawing on a vast range of original sources, the book discusses and compares different models of collaboration, from life-long, exclusive partnerships to one-time, widely-advertised collaborative ventures between best-selling novelists. It deals with authors such as Walter Besant, Somerville and Ross, Andrew Lang, H.R. Haggard and Rhoda Broughton, all favourites of the Victorian public but subsequently neglected and only recently reevaluated. By unpacking the debate that developed around co-authorship in the periodical press of the time, the book also sheds light on how collaborative authorship was imagined by the general public, and illustrates how the trend effectively--if temporarily--challenged Victorian assumptions about the author as a solitary genius."-- Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction

Walter Besant and James Rice

E.Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross

Fashionable collaborations

Literary collaboration and the late Victorian imagination

Literary collaboration and the figure of the author

Appendix: A selection of co-authored novels, c. 1860-1920.

Notes:

"Bibliography": pages 273-287.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781835536865

1835536867

OCLC:

1427237973