Prologue: signs of the times: five snapshots of contemporary authorship
Contexts and heterotexts: a theoretical and historical introduction / Marjorie Stone & Judith Thompson
I. Early modern "coupled worke"
"Warpe" and "webb" in the Sidney Psalms: the "coupled worke" of the Countess of Pembroke and Sir Philip Sidney / Patricia Demers
Constructing an adventure and negotiating for narrative control: Johnson and Boswell in the Hebrides / John B. Radner
II. Romantic joint labour
Editing Minervas: William Godwin's liminal maneuvres in Mary Wollstonecraft's Wrongs of woman / Gerard Goggin
Home at Grasmere again: revising the family in Dove Cottage / Anne D. Wallace
"The body of my father's writings": Sara Coleridge's genial labour / Alison Hickey
III. Victorian complementarities and crosscurrents
"Singing song for song": the Brownings "in the poetic relation" / Corinne Davies & Marjorie Stone
Collaboration and collusion: two Victorian writing couples and their orientalist texts / Jill Matus
"An uninterrupted current": homoeroticism and collaborative authorship in Teleny / Robert Gray & Christopher Keep
IV. Literary modernity: mythmakers and muses
Courting the Muse: Dorothy Wellesley and W.B. Yeats / Lisa Harper
Not Elizabeth to his Ralegh: Laura Riding, Robert Graves and origins of the white goddess / Amber Vogel
V. Writing back: postcolonial and contemporary contestation and retrospection
Competing versions of a love story: Mircea Eliade and Maitreyi Devi / Rebecca Carpenter
"Your sentence was mine too": reading Sylvia Plath in Ted Hughes's Birthday letters / Sarah Churchwell
Crowding the garrett: women's collaborative writing and the problematics of space / Lorraine York
Taking joint stock: a critical survey of scholarship on literary couples and collaboration / Marjorie Stone & Judith Thompson.
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Literary couplings : writing couples, collaborators, and the construction of authorship. ISBN 9780299217600. Published by University of Wisconsin Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
