Unequal Partners : : Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship / / Lillian Nayder.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Nayder, Lillian,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 4 halftones

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 Nayder's discussion of the collaboration and its principals is greatly enriched by archival research into unpublished and unfamiliar material, including the manuscripts of The Frozen Deep.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- The Collaborations of Dickens and Collins -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Professional Writers and Hired Hands: Household Words and the Victorian Publishing Business -- 2. Collins Joins Dickens's Management Team: "The Wreck of the Golden Mary" -- 3. The Cannibal, the Nurse, and the Cook: Variants of The Frozen Deep -- 4. Class Consciousness and the Indian Mutiny: The Collaborative Fiction of 1857 -- 5. "No Thoroughfare": The Problem of Illegitimacy -- 6. Crimes of the Empire, Contagion of the East: The Moonstone and The Mystery of Edwin Drood -- Conclusion: "This Unclean Spirit of Imitation": Dickens and the "Problem" of Collins's Influence -- Works Cited -- Index