{"product_id":"unequal-partners-9780801476853","title":"Unequal Partners","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pair''s collaborations for\u003ci\u003e Household Words\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAll the Year Round \u003c\/i\u003eexplicitly 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 prin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnequal Partners\u003c\/i\u003e is a well-written, well-researched, sharply focused book that excels in training our attention on the asymmetries of Dickens's and Collins's professional relationship. In the early 1850's, Dickens was clearly the master, Collins the apprentice, but this model gradually lost applicability as Collins matured as a writer.\u003c\/p\u003e * Novel *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than a century, Wilkie Collins's reputation has been overshadowed by that of Charles Dickens, a situation that Nayder goes far toward rectifying.... Nayder's critiques of Collins's \u003ci\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/i\u003e faced off by Dickens's \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of Edwin Drood\u003c\/i\u003e are highlights in this study.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUnequal Partner\u003c\/i\u003es, Nayder graphs a progressively difficult partnership from Collins's initial hero-worship of \u003ci\u003eThe Inimitable\u003c\/i\u003e,... through a more equitable division of labors which still excluded control of the total artistic vision of a work, to Collins's parting company with Dickens in 1862 after eight Christmas Stories.... When Collins returned, he was an established author prepared to challenge the authority of the journal's 'Conductor.' Finally, Nayder provides a refreshing and challenging reading of \u003ci\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of Edwin Drood\u003c\/i\u003e as diametrically opposed in matters of gender and race.\u003c\/p\u003e * Victorian Web *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNayder's juxtaposition of fact and fiction, and her painstaking scholarship, offer fresh insights which renew interest in works which seemingly contain a key to the productive, yet often strained, alliance, between these two nineteenth-century authors.\u003c\/p\u003e * Yearbook of English Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Dickens\/Collins collaborations and competitions were productive in the authors' lifetimes and subsequently. Lillian Nayder's thorough, clear, and partisan account of Collins's role will assuredly be answered by Dickensians. But they had better consider all her evidence, including the ambiguous, changing material conditions of writing that affected both authors' careers. For she has constructed an exemplary case for the subordinate who rose from dependent to independent Victorian author.\u003c\/p\u003e * Victorian Periodical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eThe Collaborations of Dickens and Collins\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Professional Writers and Hired Hands: Household Words and the Victorian Publishing Business\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Collins Joins Dickens's Management Team: \"The Wreck of the Golden Mary\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. The Cannibal, the Nurse, and the Cook: Variants of \u003cem\u003eThe Frozen Deep\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Class Consciousness and the Indian Mutiny: The Collaborative Fiction of 1857\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. \"No Thoroughfare\": The Problem of Illegitimacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Crimes of the Empire, Contagion of the East: \u003cem\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Mystery of Edwin Drood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion—\"This Unclean Spirit of Imitation\": Dickens and the \"Problem\" of Collins's Influence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405154459991,"sku":"9780801476853","price":24.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801476853.jpg?v=1730488902","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unequal-partners-9780801476853","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}