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Author Witcher, Heather Bozant

Title Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century Sympathetic Partnerships and Artistic Creation
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (282 p.)
Series Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Ser. ; v.135
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Ser
Contents Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- (Re)Defining Collaboration -- Chapter 1 Adam Smith's Liberal Sympathy -- "Enter[ing] into" Smithean Sympathy -- Tracing Sympathy in the Long Nineteenth Century -- Sympathetic Collaboration and Smithean Liberalism -- Liberal Impulses of a Sympathetic Poet -- Chapter 2 "O You Pretty Pecksie!": The Collaborative Process of Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Circulating Feeling in Travels and Shared Life-Writing
Reunifying Circles: Free Love and Ideal Sympathetic Communities -- Constructing Frankenstein: Animating Sympathetic Narratives -- Chapter 3 Written-Visual Aesthetics: The Rossettis and the Pre-Raphaelites -- The Golden Age of Illustration: Books as Social Processes -- Epistolary Evidence in The Prince's Progress (1866) -- Situating Christina Rossetti within the Brotherhood -- Concord between Illustration and Verse -- Christina's "Inner Consciousness": Sympathy and Social Concern -- Coda: Towards a "Totalized Art"
Chapter 4 Typographical Adventures: William Morris, Community, and the Kelmscott Press -- The William Morris Paradox -- Circles of Sympathy: Smith's Impartial Spectator and Liberal Community -- Social Experimentation and Typographical Adventure -- "Sympathetic Translation": Concord in the Ideal Book -- "Part of a Whole": Morris's Ideals versus Victorian Practice -- Morris's "little job": Producing the Kelmscott Chaucer -- "Fingers, Eyes, and Sympathy": Robert Catterson-Smith and Edward Burne-Jones -- "A Thing Is Either All Right or Wrong"
Morris and Charles Gere's Collaboration for News from Nowhere -- Pleasure in the "Lesser Arts" -- Chapter 5 Sim and Puss: The Sympathetic Mirroring of Michael Field -- Crossing and Interlacing: Writing as Mosaic -- A Textured Approach to Life-Writing -- Sympathetic Transportation to Edinburgh -- Collaborating with the Past in Decadent Drama and Balladry -- Metrical Transport and Transgressive Remembrance -- Chapter 6 Towards Empathy: Vernon Lee's Psychological Aesthetics -- Fluidity of Transition: From Sympathy to Empathy -- A Partnership of "Loose End[s]"
Individual or Communal?: Waking from "False Aestheticism" -- The Companionate Nature of Belcaro -- Isolating Effects of Empathy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1 Adam Smith's Liberal Sympathy -- 2 "O You Pretty Pecksie!" -- 3 Written-Visual Aesthetics -- 4 Typographical Adventures -- 5 Sim and Puss -- 6 Towards Empathy -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Examining social and material dimensions of collaboration, this book reveals the diverse networks of nineteenth-century literary exchange
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781009075701
1009075705