Ingo Berensmeyer , Gert Buelens , and Marysa Demoor (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship
Andrea Selleri · Notes and Queries · 2021
At nearly 500 pages and comprising 26 new essays plus an editors’ introduction, this volume clearly aims to set the terms for current research in the subfield of ‘literary authorship’. Much of the work contained here is strong enough to make this a good thing overall, but one could have wished for some further work on the editors’ part to streamline the book’s foci and research questions; as it is, the collection is somewhat disjointed, despite being divided into three sections, ‘historical’, ‘systematic’, and ‘practical’ perspectives. The ‘historical perspectives’ take up half of the book, and span literary history from Gilgamesh to E.L. James. Of the essays about antiquity, the most interesting...