Collaborators in Literary America, 1870-1920
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Collaborators in Literary America, 1870-1920

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Collaborators in Literary America, 1870-1920

About this book

Much has been written recently about the important changes in understandings of authorship and literary labour in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries. Collaborators in Literary America, 1870-1920 argues that the collaborative novels of this period were instrumental to that reconstruction. More than just a gimmick, these novels (there were dozens published between The Gilded Age (1873) by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner and The Sturdy Oak (1917) by Mary Austin, Kathleen Norris, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Henry Kitchell Webster, et. al. ) were a serious attempt to work through the anxieties authors faced in an ever more competitive and business-like market. By examining the issues surrounding collaborative production of writers such as Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells, Ashton demonstrates that in union there was strength.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2003
Print ISBN
9781403962171
eBook ISBN
9781403982575
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: The Collaborative Age
  5. Chapter 1 Where the Twain did Meet—The Gilded Age of American Authorship
  6. Chapter 2 The King’s Men, or a Parable of Democratic Authorship
  7. Chapter 3 Clubbing, Conversing, and Collaborating: Brander Matthews as Professional Man of Letters
  8. Chapter 4 Veribly a Purple Cow: The Whole Family and the Collaborative Search for Coherence
  9. Conclusion
  10. Appendix: Author List
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Bibliography of Collaborative Fiction
  14. Index