Gender collaboration and authorship in German culture : literary joint ventures 1750 1850 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. The Gottscheds : conjugal authorship as a disjointed venture Margaretmary Daley A dynamic interplay : cooperation between Sophie von la Roche Christoph Martin Wieland and Goethe on their way to authorship Monika Nenon Collaborating with spirits : Cagliostro Elisa von der Recke and the phantoms of Unmündigkeit Michelle Stott James and Rob McFarland A freedom apart : feminine Bildung in Sophie Mereaus Marie and Amanda und Eduard Tom Spencer and Jennifer Jenson Scenes from a marriage : Friedrich and Dorothea Schlegel collaboration as symphilosophy and after Adrian Daub Holy hermaphrodite : the collaboration between Caroline and Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué Eleanor ter Horst Concepts of collaboration : Märchenomas the woman writer and the Brothers Grimm Julie Koehler A meeting of minds the dialogue between voices female and male in the poems of the West Eastern Divan Charlotte Lee The correspondence of Rahel Levin Varnhagen and Ludwig Robert : epistolary writing as a space for symphilosophieren Laura Deiulio Reflexive authorship in Bettina Brentano von Arnims Die Günderode : narrative disunity Hölderlin and Günderrode Karen R. Daubert Where words are not enough : audience and authorship in the marriage diaries of Robert and Clara Schumann Brian Tucker Therese Robinsons Die Auswanderer (1852) as Goethes Future novel of America Judith E. Martin.