Collaborative writing in the long nineteenth century : sympathetic partnerships in artistic creation /
Witcher, Heather Bozant,1988-author.
"Our reliance on one another, whether on this plane or another, is what can never be explained. There have been many empty moments, long spaces of silence, both grappling with the same intangible idea. Sometimes the compelling creative urge would come on both, and we would try to reconcile the two impulses, searching for a form into which best to cast them-one releasing it, perhaps as a cloudy suggestion, to be caught up by the other, and given form and colour, then to float away in a flash of certainty, a completed sentence-as two dancers will yield to the same impulse, given by the same strain of music, and know the joy of shared success."--
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--St. Louis University).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Adam Smith's liberal sympathy -- "O you pretty Pecksie!": the collaborative process of Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Written-visual aesthetics : the Rossettis and the pre-Raphaelites -- Typographical adventures: William Morris, community, and the Kelmscott Press -- Sim and Puss: the sympathetic mirroring of Michael Field -- Towards empathy: Vernon Lee's psychological aesthetics.
"Our reliance on one another, whether on this plane or another, is what can never be explained. There have been many empty moments, long spaces of silence, both grappling with the same intangible idea. Sometimes the compelling creative urge would come on both, and we would try to reconcile the two impulses, searching for a form into which best to cast them-one releasing it, perhaps as a cloudy suggestion, to be caught up by the other, and given form and colour, then to float away in a flash of certainty, a completed sentence-as two dancers will yield to the same impulse, given by the same strain of music, and know the joy of shared success."--
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
Morris, William, 1834-1896
Field, Michael
Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935
Authorship
English literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)