Literary couplings: writing couples, collaborators, and the construction of authorship

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.