Description: Contributing to the current lively discussion of collaboration in French letters, this collection of essays raises fundamental questions about the limits and definition of authorship in the context of the nineteenth century's explosion of collaborative ventures. The volume will interest scholars of nineteenth-century French literature, and more generally, any scholar interested in what's at stake in redefining the role of the French author.
Review Quotes: Prize: A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 ... distinguished by both its intense focus and its wide-ranging vision... Highly recommended.' Choice '... this is an impressive book offering a pleasing mix of essays on old favorites and on unfamiliar works whose time to share the limelight has surely come.' Nineteenth-Century French Studies