Chapter 1: Contexts and Heterotexts: A Theoretical and Historical Introduction
Part I. Early Modern “Coupled Worke”
Chapter 2: “Warpe” and “Webb” in the Sidney Psalms: The “Coupled Worke” of the Countess of Pembroke and Sir Philip Sidney
Chapter 3: Constructing an Adventure and Negotiating for Narrative Control: Johnson and Boswell in the Hebrides
Part II. Romantic Joint Labor
Chapter 4: Editing Minervas: William Godwin’s Liminal Maneuvers in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Wrongs of Woman
Chapter 5: Home at Grasmere Again: Revising the Family in Dove Cottage
Chapter 6: “The Body of My Father’s Writings”: Sara Coleridge’s Genial Labor
Part III. Victorian Complementarities and Crosscurrents
Chapter 7: “Singing Song for Song”: The Brownings “in the Poetic Relation”
Chapter 8: Collaboration and Collusion: Two Victorian Writing Couples and Their Orientalist Texts
Chapter 9: “An Uninterrupted Current”: Homoeroticism and Collaborative Authorship in Teleny
Part IV. Literary Modernity: Mythmakers and Muses
Chapter 10: Courting the Muse: Dorothy Wellesley and W. B. Yeats
Chapter 11: Not Elizabeth to His Ralegh: Laura Riding, Robert Graves, and the Origins of The White Goddess
Part V. Writing Back: Postcolonial and Contemporary Contestation and Retrospection
Chapter 12: Competing Versions of a Love Story: Mircea Eliade and Maitreyi Devi
Chapter 13: “Your Sentence Was Mine Too”: Reading Sylvia Plath in Ted Hughes’s Birthday Letters
Chapter 14: Crowding the Garret: Women’s Collaborative Writing and the Problematics of Space
Chapter 15: Taking Joint Stock: A Critical Survey of Scholarship on Literary Couples and Collaboration