| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Collaborators in Literary America, 1870–1920. By Susanna Ashton. (New York: Palgrave, 2003. x, 223 pp. $59.95, ISBN 1-4039-6217-0.)

Susanna Ashton raises a number of intriguing questions at the beginning of her innovative analysis of literary collaboration in Gilded Age America. Calling attention to the surprisingly large number of literary works that were written by more than one hand during this period, Ashton wants us to rethink what it means to be an author, particularly when that concept is, essentially, divorced from its conventional association with an individuated creative consciousness. Why was this period so conducive to collaboration? she asks. "By examining the ways in which collaborative fictions were assembled and conceived," Ashton argues, "we can see how the profession of authorship was variously defined and how those definitions were constructed in terms of one another" (p. 2).

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