Description: Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship by Lillian Nayder In the first book centering on the collaborative relationship between Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Lillian Nayder places their coauthored works in the context of Victorian culture. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In the first book centering on the collaborative relationship between Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Lillian Nayder places their coauthored works in the context of the Victorian publishing industry and shows how their fiction and drama represent and reconfigure their sometimes strained relationship. She challenges the widely accepted image of Dickens as a mentor of younger writers such as Collins, points to the ways in which Dickens controlled and profited from his literary "satellites," and charts Collins's development as an increasingly significant and independent author.The pair's collaborations for Household Words and All the Year Round explicitly addressed Victorian labor disputes and political unrest, and Nayder reads the stories in terms of the social and imperial conflicts that both provided their themes and enabled Dickens and Collins to mediate their own personal and professional differences. Nayder's discussion of the collaboration and its principals is greatly enriched by archival research into unpublished and unfamiliar material, including the manuscripts of The Frozen Deep. Author Biography Lillian Nayder is Professor and Chair of English at Bates College. She is the author of The Other Dickens, also from Cornell. Review "Nayders juxtaposition of fact and fiction, and her painstaking scholarship, offer fresh insights which renew interest in works which seemingly contain a key to the productive, yet often strained, alliance, between these two nineteenth-century authors." * Yearbook of English Studies * "The Dickens/Collins collaborations and competitions were productive in the authors lifetimes and subsequently. Lillian Nayders thorough, clear, and partisan account of Collinss role will assuredly be answered by Dickensians. But they had better consider all her evidence, including the ambiguous, changing material conditions of writing that affected both authors careers. For she has constructed an exemplary case for the subordinate who rose from dependent to independent Victorian author." * Victorian Periodical Review * "In Unequal Partners, Nayder graphs a progressively difficult partnership from Collinss initial hero-worship of The Inimitable,... through a more equitable division of labors which still excluded control of the total artistic vision of a work, to Collinss parting company with Dickens in 1862 after eight Christmas Stories.... When Collins returned, he was an established author prepared to challenge the authority of the journals Conductor. Finally, Nayder provides a refreshing and challenging reading of The Moonstone and The Mystery of Edwin Drood as diametrically opposed in matters of gender and race." * Victorian Web * "For more than a century, Wilkie Collinss reputation has been overshadowed by that of Charles Dickens, a situation that Nayder goes far toward rectifying.... Nayders critiques of Collinss The Moonstone faced off by Dickenss The Mystery of Edwin Drood are highlights in this study." * Choice * "Unequal Partners is a well-written, well-researched, sharply focused book that excels in training our attention on the asymmetries of Dickenss and Collinss professional relationship. In the early 1850s, Dickens was clearly the master, Collins the apprentice, but this model gradually lost applicability as Collins matured as a writer." * Novel * Long Description In the first book centering on the collaborative relationship between Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Lillian Nayder places their coauthored works in the context of the Victorian publishing industry and shows how their fiction and drama represent and reconfigure their sometimes strained relationship. She challenges the widely accepted image of Dickens as a mentor of younger writers such as Collins, points to the ways in which Dickens controlled and profited from his literary "satellites," and charts Collinss development as an increasingly significant and independent author. The pairs collaborations for Household Words and All the Year Round explicitly addressed Victorian labor disputes and political unrest, and Nayder reads the stories in terms of the social and imperial conflicts that both provided their themes and enabled Dickens and Collins to mediate their own personal and professional differences. Nayders discussion of the collaboration and its principals is greatly enriched by archival research into unpublished and unfamiliar material, including the manuscripts of The Frozen Deep . Review Quote "Unequal Partners is a well-written, well-researched, sharply focused book that excels in training our attention on the asymmetries of Dickenss and Collinss professional relationship. In the early 1850s, Dickens was clearly the master, Collins the apprentice, but this model gradually lost applicability as Collins matured as a writer."-Amanda Gilroy, Novel, Fall 2003 Details ISBN0801439256 Author Lillian Nayder Short Title UNEQUAL PARTNERS Pages 248 Publisher Cornell University Press Language English ISBN-10 0801439256 ISBN-13 9780801439254 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 823.8 Illustrations Yes Year 2002 Publication Date 2002-01-31 Imprint Cornell University Press Subtitle Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship Place of Publication Ithaca Country of Publication United States Affiliation Associate Professor of English, Bates College, USA Audience Age 18 DOI 10.1604/9780801439254 Audience General/Trade UK Release Date 2001-12-13 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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ISBN-13: 9780801439254
Book Title: Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2001
Subject: History
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 28 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Lillian Nayder
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Hardcover
