Models of Collaboration in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

Several Authors, One Pen
Herausgeber: Whidden, Seth

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Produktbeschreibung

Contributing to the current lively discussion of collaboration in French letters, this collection of essays raises fundamental questions about the limits and definition of authorship in the context of the nineteenth century's explosion of collaborative ventures. The volume will interest scholars of nineteenth-century French literature, and more generally, any scholar interested in what's at stake in redefining the role of the French author.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780754666431
• ISBN-10: 0754666433
• Artikelnr.: 45600999

Autorenporträt

Seth Whidden is Associate Professor of French at Villanova University, USA. He is the author of Leaving Parnassus, and coeditor-in-chief of the scholarly journal Parade sauvage: revue d'études rimbaldiennes.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction On Collaboration 1 My discussion of collaboration benefited
greatly from the wisdom and comments of Frank Paul Bowman, to whose memory
this Introduction is dedicated., Seth Whidden; Part I Collaboration before
the Revolution; Chapter 1 How Often Did Authors Write Alone?: Ways of
Becoming an Author in Early Modern France, Joan DeJean; Chapter 2 "Le Dîner
des philosophes": Conviviality and Collaboration in the French
Enlightenment, John R. Iverson; Part II The Nineteenth Century: A Long
Century of Collaboration; Chapter 3 Collaboration and Solidarity: The
Collective Strategies of the Romantic Cenacle, Anthony Glinoer; Chapter 4
Smooth Collaboration: Vitalism and Judaism in Erckmann-Chatrian's L'Ami
Fritz, Julia Przybos* Research for this essay was supported by the
Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Research
Award Program.; Chapter 5 Sharing One's Death: Le Tombeau de Théophile
Gautier (1873), Durand Pascal; Chapter 6 Poetry in Collaboration in the
1870s: The Cercle Zutique, "Le Fleuve" and "The Raven", Seth Whidden;
Chapter 7 Erasing Collaboration: The Case of André Gill and Louis de
Gramont, Joseph Acquisto; Chapter 8 The Médan Group and the Campaign of
Naturalism, Jennifer K. Wolter; Chapter 9 From Illustration to Decoration:
Maurice Denis's Illustrations for Paul Verlaine and André Gide 1 A version
of this essay was given at a symposium organized by the University of
Toledo in February 2003 in conjunction with the exhibition "Splendid Pages:
The Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books" held
at the Toledo Museum of Art (14 February-11 May 2003)., Frédéric Canovas;
Chapter 10 Collective Experiment in Literary Journalism: The Case of La
Revue Wagnérienne, Pamela A. Genova; Chapter 11 Rhyparographers: Les Frères
Goncourt and Monstrous Writing, Lawrence R. Schehr; Part III The Twentieth
Century: Collaboration and Modernism; Chapter 12 Belgian, Modernist, and
Avant-garde Literary Journals from the Early 1920s: A Model for Network
Collaboration, Daphné de Marneffe;