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

Scholars of French literature in the US, Belgium, and Canada explore collaboration in novels and other genre, and focus the collaborative texts themselves rather than trying to plumb the depths of the authors' minds. Their topics include the collective strategies of the Romantic cenacle, sharing one's death in Le Tombeau de Theophile Gautier (1873), the Meden Group and the campaign of naturalism, and La Revue Wagnerienne as a case of collective experiment in literary journalism. The main body is framed on the early side by essays on becoming an author in early modern France and conviviality and collaboration in the French Enlightenment; and on the later side by one on a model for network collaboration in Belgian, modernist, and avant-garde literary journals from the early 1920s. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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'Actudes rimbaldiennes.