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Why would two people who describe their joint venture as a complete merger, write a novel that assails corporations for stifling competition? How can we reconcile the image of two writers supposedly writing in concert, wherein hardly a page doesn’t have the hand of both, with the often-conservative attacks in the novel itself on theories of community, democracy, and collective endeavors?
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© 2003 Susanna Ashton
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Ashton, S. (2003). Where the Twain did Meet—The Gilded Age of American Authorship. In: Collaborators in Literary America, 1870–1920. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403982575_2
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