Title Writing double : women's literary partnerships / Bette London

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 234 pages) : illustrations Series Reading women writing Reading women writing. Contents 1. Secret Writing: The Bronte Juvenilia and the Myth of Solitary Genius -- 2. "Something Obscurely Repellent": The Resistance to Double Writing -- 3. Two of a Trade: Partners in Writing, 1880-1930 -- 4. Writing at the Margins: Collaboration and the Discourse of Exoticism -- 3. The Scribe and the Lady: Automatic Writing and the Trials of Authorship -- 6. Romancing the Medium: The Silent Partnership of Georgie Yeats -- Afterword: Ghostwriting; or, The Afterlife of Authorship Summary Annotation Although Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault announced the death of the author several decades ago, critics have been slow to abandon the idea of the solitary writer. Bette London maintains that this notion has blinded us to the reality that writing is seldom an individual activity and that it has led us to overlook both the frequency with which women authors have worked together and the significance of their collaborative undertakings as a form of professional activity. In Writing Double, the first full-length treatment of women?s literary partnerships, she goes to the heart of issues surrounding authorial identity. What is an author? Which forms of authorship are sanctioned and which forms marginalized? Which of these forms have particularly attracted women? Such questions are central to London?s analysis of the challenge that women?s literary collaboration presents to accepted notions of authorship. Focusing on British texts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, she considers a fascinating variety of works by largely noncanonical, and in some instances highly unconventional, authors--from the enormously popular novels composed by writing teams at the turn of the century, to the Bront? juvenilia and the occult scripts of Georgie Yeats and W.B. Yeats, to automatic writings produced by mediums purporting to be in communication with the spirit world Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Authorship -- Collaboration -- History Spirit writings -- Authorship Women mediums -- Biography LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors Authorship -- Collaboration English literature -- Women authors Women and literature Women mediums Mitverfasser Literaturproduktion Partnerschaft Kooperation Frauenliteratur Literatur Schriftstellerin Frau -- Kollektive Autorschaft -- englische -- Geschichte 19. Jh. Kollektive Autorschaft -- englische -- Frau -- Geschichte 19. Jh. Schriftstellerin -- Grossbritannien -- Kooperation -- Geschichte -- 1800-1930. Kooperation -- Schriftstellerin -- Grossbritannien -- Geschichte -- 1800-1930. Autorschaft -- Frau -- Kooperation -- Geschichte -- 1800-1930. Kooperation -- Frau -- Autorschaft -- Geschichte -- 1800-1930. Frau -- Autorschaft -- Kooperation -- Geschichte -- 1800-1930. Great Britain Großbritannien Englisch. Genre/Form Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 99037635 ISBN 0801474663 9780801474668 9780801435638 0801435633 9780801485558 080148555X

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