Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 197 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Introduction. Modernism's unfinished lives. The unfinished business of 1928: modernism, feminism, and the biographical act ; Intimacy and the archive ; Passionate commitments ; Between women, between generations -- Intimate archives: the preservation of partnership. Intimacy issues ; Claiming Radclyffe Hall: an almost archival story ; Sylvia Townsend Warner's "two tenses" ; T.H. White and the idea of queer futurity ; The tin box: intimacy, memory, and the archive ; Archival scenes: intimacy across generations -- Abandoned lives: impossible projects and archival remains. Djuna Barnes and the "disquiet spirit" of the baroness ; "The cult of the past": on the late refusal of Hope Mirrlees ; "More than a daughter to her": tracing reputation, resisting identity ; Unfinished acts: facing the problem of "what to say & what to leave out" ; Historic preservation and biographical extravagance: the case of A fly in amber -- Modernists explain things to me: collecting as queer feminist response. Modernism's midwife: Sylvia Beach's unfinished jobs ; The queer disinheritance of Alice B. Toklas ; Beyond biography: Margaret Anderson's "collection" -- The sense of unending: revisiting Virginia Woolf 's Orlando: a biography ; Queer/late/modernist biography ; Love letters and passion projects ; Vita Sackville-West's queer inheritance ; Toward an unfinished modernism -- Coda. Biographical criticism and the passion project now |
Summary |
This book examines biographical projects that modernist women writers undertook to resist the exclusion of their friends, colleagues, lovers, and companions from literary history |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-186) and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 17, 2019) |
Subject |
Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
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Women authors -- History -- 20th century
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Feminism in literature.
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Gender identity in literature.
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
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American literature
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English literature
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Feminism in literature
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Gender identity in literature
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Literature, Modern
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Women authors
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0691194270 |
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9780691194271 |
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