Scholars of French literature in the US, Belgium, and Canada explore collaboration in novels and other genre, and focus the collaborative texts themselves rather than trying to plumb the depths
of the authors' minds. Their topics include the collective strategies of the Romantic cenacle, sharing one's death in Le Tombeau de Th矇ophile Gautier (1873), the M矇den Group and the campaign of
naturalism, and La Revue Wagn矇rienne as a case of collective experiment in literary journalism. The main body is framed on the early side by essays on becoming an author in early modern France
and conviviality and collaboration in the French Enlightenment; and on the later side by one on a model for network collaboration in Belgian, modernist, and avant-garde literary journals from
the early 1920s. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
