Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Signs of the Times: Five Snapshots of Contemporary Authorship -- Contexts and Heterotexts: A Theoretical and Historical Introduction -- I. Early Modern "Coupled Worke" -- "Warpe" and "Webb" in the Sidney Psalms: The "Coupled Worke" of the Countess of Pembroke and Sir Philip Sidney -- Constructing an Adventure and Negotiating for Narrative Control: Johnson and Boswell in the Hebrides -- II. Romantic Joint Labor -- Editing Minervas: William Godwin's Liminal Maneuvers in Mary Wollstonecraft's Wrongs of Woman -- Home at Grasmere Again: Revising the Family in Dove Cottage -- "The Body of My Father's Writings": Sara Coleridge's Genial Labor -- III. Victorian Complementarities and Crosscurrents -- "Singing Song for Song": The Brownings "in the Poetic Relation" -- Collaboration and Collusion: Two Victorian Writing Couples and Their Orientalist Texts -- "An Uninterrupted Current": Homoeroticism and Collaborative Authorship in Teleny -- IV. Literary Modernity: Mythmakers and Muses -- Courting the Muse: Dorothy Wellesley and W. B. Yeats -- Not Elizabeth to His Ralegh: Laura Riding, Robert Graves, and the Origins of the White Goddess -- V. Writing Back: Postcolonial and Contemporary Contestation and Retrospection -- Competing Versions of a Love Story: Mircea Eliade and Maitreyi Devi -- "Your Sentence Was Mine Too": Reading Sylvia Plath in Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters -- Crowding the Garret: Women's Collaborative Writing and the Problematics of Space -- Taking Joint Stock: A Critical Survey of Scholarship on Literary Couples and Collaboration -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.