'The tension between collective creativity and individual genius is again under inspection, this time by Russell McDonald in Modernist Literary Collaborations Between Men and Women … Conflict underpins much of the work described in the book. The author calls it a 'discord aesthetic' and goes so far as to suggest that a distinctive modernist style was the direct result of productive tensions and inequalities between men and women.' Jade French, Times Literary Supplement
Introduction; 1. Imagining two as one: collaboration and the discourse of sex relations in early modernism; 2. The discord aesthetic in D. H. Lawrence's collaborations with women; 3. The fight to be affectionate: textual intimacy and the drive to animate marriage; 4. The yolk and white of the one shell: modernism's androgynous textual bodies; 5. Being a genius together.