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S. Whidden (dir.), Models of Collaboration in Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Several Authors, One Pen

S. Whidden (dir.), Models of Collaboration in Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Several Authors, One Pen

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Publié le par Matthieu Vernet (Source : Ashgate Publishing)

Models of Collaboration in Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Several Authors, One Pen

Sous la direction de Seth Whidden

Ashgate, 2009, 208 p.

Présentation de l'éditeur : 

Contributing to the current lively discussion of collaborationin French letters, this collection raises fundamental questions aboutthe limits and definition of authorship in the context of thenineteenth century's explosion of collaborative ventures. While themodel of the stable single author that prevailed during the Romanticperiod dominates the beginning of the century, the authority of thespeaking subject is increasingly in crisis through the century'spolitical and social upheavals. Chapters consider the breakdown ofauthorial presence across different constructions of authorship,including the numerous cenacles of the Romantic period; collaborativeventures in poetry through the practice of the "Tombeaux" and as seenin the Album zutique; the interplay of text and image throughillustrations for literary works; the collective ventures of literaryjournals; and multi-author prose works by authors such as the Goncourtbrothers and Erckmann-Chatrian. Interdisciplinary in scope, theseessays form a cohesive investigation of collaboration that extendsbeyond literature to include journalism and the relationships andtensions between literature and the arts. The volume will interestscholars of nineteenth-century French literature, and more generally,any scholar interested in what's at stake in redefining the role of theFrench author

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Introduction: on collaboration, SethWhidden; Collaboration Before the Revolution: How often did authorswrite alone?: ways of becoming an author in early modern France, JoanDeJean; ''Le dîner des philosophes'': conviviality and collaboration inthe French Enlightenment, John R. Iverson. The 19th Century: A LongCentury of Collaboration: Collaboration and solidarity: the collectivestrategies of the romantic cenacle, Anthony Glinoer; Smoothcollaboration: vitalism and Judaism in Erckmann-Chatrian''s L''AmiFritz, Julia Przybos; Sharing one''s death: Le Tombeau de ThéophileGautier (1873), Pascal Durand; Poetry in collaboration in the 1870s:the Cercle Zutique, ''Le Fleuve'' and ''The Raven'', Seth Whidden;Erasing collaboration: the case of André Gill and Louis de Gramont,Joseph Acquisto; The Médan group and the campaign of naturalism,Jennifer K. Wolter; From illustration to decoration: Maurice Denis''illustrations for Paul Verlaine and André Gide, Frédéric Canovas; Acollective experiment in literary journalism: the case of La RevueWagnérienne, Pamela A. Genova; Rhyparographers: Les Frères Goncourt andmonstrous writing, Lawrence R. Schehr. The 20th Century: Collaborationand Modernism: Belgian, modernist and avant-garde literary journalsfrom the early 1920s: a model for network collaboration, Daphné deMarneffe; Index.

 Seth Whidden is AssociateProfessor of French at Villanova University, USA. He is the author ofLeaving Parnassus, and coeditor-in-chief of the scholarly journalParade sauvage: revue d'études rimbaldiennes.Seth Whidden's official bio page on the Villanova University website.

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