Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: Sympathetic Partnerships and Artistic Creation
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.
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Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: Sympathetic Partnerships and Artistic Creation
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.
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Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: Sympathetic Partnerships and Artistic Creation

Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: Sympathetic Partnerships and Artistic Creation

by Heather Bozant Witcher
Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: Sympathetic Partnerships and Artistic Creation
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Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: Sympathetic Partnerships and Artistic Creation

Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: Sympathetic Partnerships and Artistic Creation

by Heather Bozant Witcher

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781009075503
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 03/17/2022
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture , #135
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Adam Smith's liberal sympathy; 2. 'O you pretty Pecksie!': The collaborative process of Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley; 3. Written-visual aesthetics: The Rossettis and the Pre-Raphaelites; 4. Typographical adventures: William Morris, community, and the Kelmscott Press; 5. Sim and Puss: The sympathetic mirroring of Michael Field; 6. Towards empathy: Vernon Lee's psychological aesthetics; Conclusion.
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