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Zusatztext The editors of this volume demonstrate that intergender collaboration was more frequent and more significant than is generally assumed ... Most of the contributors refrain from merely memorializing the less familiar member of the creative duo or trio, preferring to identify the shifting qualities of each partnership and avoid presenting them as one-sided. There is universal consensus that the phenomenon of co-authorship is complex and hard to define. Informationen zum Autor John B. Lyon is Professor of German at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author of Crafting Flesh, Crafting the Self: Violence and Identity in Early 19th Century German Literature (2006) and Out of Place: German Realism, Displacement, and Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2013). Laura Deiulio is Associate Professor of German at Christopher Newport University, USA. Vorwort Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture surveys male-female literary collaborations between 1750 and 1850, countering the model of the single male genius author. Zusammenfassung Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture challenges a model of literary production that persists in literary studies: the so-called Geniekult or the idea of the solitary male author as genius that emerged around 1800 in German lands. A closer look at creative practices during this time indicates that collaborative creative endeavors, specifically joint ventures between women and men, were an important mode of literary production during this era. This volume surveys a variety of such collaborations and proves that male and female spheres of creation were not as distinct as has been previously thought. It demonstrates that the model of the male genius that dominated literary studies for centuries was not inevitable, that viable alternatives to it existed. Finally, it demands that we rethink definitions of an author and a literary work in ways that account for the complex modes of creation from which they arose. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Laura Deiulio (Christopher Newport University) and John B. Lyon (University ofPittsburgh) 1. The Gottscheds: Conjugal Authorship as a Disjointed Venture Margaretmary Daley (Case Western Reserve University, USA) 2. A Dynamic Interplay: Cooperation between Sophie von La Roche, Christoph Martin Wieland, and Goethe on Their Way to Authorship Monika Nenon (University of Memphis, USA) 3. "Collaborating with Spirits": Cagliostro, Elisa von der Recke, and the Phantoms of Unmündigkeit Michelle Stott James (Brigham Young University, USA) and Rob McFarland (Brigham Young University, USA) 4. A Freedom Apart: Feminine Bildung in Sophie Mereau’s “Marie” and Amanda und Eduard Tom Spencer (Brigham Young University, USA) and Jennifer Jenson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) 5. Scenes from a Marriage: Friedrich and Dorothea Schlegel, Collaboration as Symphilosophy and After Adrian Daub (Stanford University, USA) 6. Holy Hermaphrodite: The Collaboration Between Caroline and Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué Eleanor ter Horst (University of South Alabama, USA) 7. Concepts of Collaboration: Märchenomas , the Woman Writer, and the Brothers Grimm Julie Koehler (Wayne State University, USA) 8. A Meeting of Minds? The Dialogue Between Voices Female and Male in the Poems of the West-Eastern Divan Charlotte Lee (University of Cambridge, UK) 9. The Correspondence of Rahel Levin Varnhagen and Ludwig Robert: Epistolary Writing as a Space for Symphilosophieren Laura Deiulio (Christopher Newport University, USA) 10. Reflexive Authorship in Bettina Brentano-von Arnim’s Die Günderode : Narrative Disunity, ...
