Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius

by Jack Stillinger

Book Overview

This is a study of the collaborative creation behind literary works that are usually considered to be written by a single author. Although most theories of interpretation and editing depend on a concept of single authorship, many works are actually developed by more than one author. Stillinger examines case histories from Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Mill, and T.S. Eliot, as well as from American fiction, plays, and films, demonstrating that multiple...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195068610
• ISBN13: 9780195068610
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"