Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: Sympathetic Partnerships and Artistic Creation: 135 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 135)

Witcher, Heather Bozant

ISBN 10: 1009073923 / ISBN 13: 9781009073929

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 2025

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• Titre: Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: Sympathetic Partnerships and Artistic Creation: 135 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 135)
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date de parution: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1009073923
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781009073929
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l'auteur

Heather Bozant Witcher is an Assistant Professor at Auburn University at Montgomery. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century poetics, collaboration, and sociability, as well as archival theory and digital humanities. She is the co-editor of Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics (2020) and was the 2016 Amy P. Goldman Fellow in Pre-Raphaelite Studies.