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Author Micir, Melanie, author.

Title The passion projects : modernist women, intimate archives, unfinished lives / Melanie Micir
Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
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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
Women authors -- History -- 20th century
Feminism in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
American literature
English literature
Feminism in literature
Gender identity in literature
Literature, Modern
Women authors
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0691194270
9780691194271