Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Collaborative Age
  • Chapter 1. Where the Twain did Meet--The Gilded Age of American Authorship
  • Chapter 2. The King's Men, or a Parable of Democratic Authorship
  • Chapter 3. Clubbing, Conversing, and Collaborating: Brander Matthews as Professional Man of Letters
  • Chapter 4. Veribly a Purple Cow: The Whole Family and the Collaborative Search for Coherence
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix. Author List
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Bibliography of Collaborative Fiction
  • Index