Collaborators in Literary America, 1870-1920
by Susanna Ashton
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Much has been written recently about the important changes in understandings of authorship and literary labour in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries. Collaborators in Literary America, 1870-1920 argues that the collaborative novels of this period were instrumental to that reconstruction. More than just a gimmick, these novels (there were dozens published between The Gilded Age (1873) by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner and The Sturdy Oak (1917) by Mary Austin, Kathleen show more Norris, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Henry Kitchell Webster, et. al. ) were a serious attempt to work through the anxieties authors faced in an ever more competitive and business-like market. By examining the issues surrounding collaborative production of writers such as Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells, Ashton demonstrates that in union there was strength. show lessTags
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Susanna Ashton is an associate professor and associate chair in the Department of English at Clemson University. She is the author of Collaborators in Literary America, 1870-1920 and coeditor of These "Colored" United States: African American Essays from the 1920s.
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
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- 810.9 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American literature in English History and criticism of American literature
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- PS217 .C64 .A84 — Language and Literature American literature American literature By period 19th century
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