Literary couplings : writing couples, collaborators, and the construction of authorship / edited by Marjorie Stone and Judith Thompson.
| Other author | Stone, Marjorie, 1951- |
| Other author | Thompson, Judith, 1957- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2006. |
| Description | xiv, 373 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-359) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005033030 |
| ISBN | 0299217604 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780299217600 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR149.C58 L58 2006 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |