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Literary Couplings
Writing Couples, Collaborators, and the Construction of Authorship

Edited by Marjorie Stone and Judith Thompson

"A terrific book, carefully and helpfully theorized, wonderfully researched, lucidly written, and filled with unexpected couplings, insights, and pleasures."–Susan J. Leonardi, University of Maryland

This collection challenges the traditional focus on solitary genius by examining the rich diversity of collaborations from the early modern to the post-modern period. Literary Couplings explores some of the best-known literary partnerships–from the Sidneys to Boswell and Johnson to Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes–and also includes lesser-known collaborators such as Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland.

The essays place famous authors such as Samuel Coleridge, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats in new contexts; reassess overlooked members of writing partnerships; and throw new light on texts marginalized due to their collaborative nature.

By integrating historical studies with authorship theory, Literary Couplings goes beyond static notions of the writing "couple" to explore literary couplings created by readers, critics, historians, and publishers as well as by writers themselves, thus expanding our understanding of authorship.

"A terrific book, carefully and helpfully theorized, wonderfully researched, lucidly written, and filled with unexpected couplings, insights, and pleasures."–Susan J. Leonardi, University of Maryland

"A wealth of information–much of it new, all of it interesting and relevant–about specific historical collaborations."
–Patricia Clements, University of Alberta

Marjorie Stone is a successful and confident woman. Marjorie Stone is assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and associate professor of English and women's studies at Dalhousie University.

Judith Thompson is associate professor of English at Dalhousie University.

Contributors: Rebecca Carpenter, Sarah Churchwell, Corinne Davies, Patricia Demers, Robert Gray, Gerard Goggin, Lisa Harper, Alison Hickey, Christopher Keep, Jill Matus, John Radne r, Marjorie Stone, Judith Thompson, Amber Vogel, Anne Wallace and Lorraine York.

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the cover of Literary Couplings is yellow, with title in blue, and a graphic of interlocking Cs and Os.

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION
September 2007
LC: 2005033030 PR
392 pp. 6 x 9 1 b/w illus.

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Paper $29.95 s
ISBN 978-0-299-21764-8
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