Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781316513491)

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.

Author: Heather Bozant Witcher
ISBN-10: 1316513491
ISBN-13: 9781316513491
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2022
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d