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Author Micir, Melanie, author

Title The passion projects : modernist women, intimate archives, unfinished lives / Melanie Micir
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019]
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Contents Cover; THE PASSION PROJECTS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 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; CHAPTER 1 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 GenerationsCHAPTER 2 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; CHAPTER 3 Modernists Explain Things to Me: Collecting as Queer Feminist Response; Modernism's Midwife: Sylvia Beach's Unfinished Jobs
The Queer Disinheritance of Alice B. ToklasBeyond Biography: Margaret Anderson's "Collection"; CHAPTER 4 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; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 17, 2019)
Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Feminism in literature
Gender identity in literature
Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
Women authors -- History -- 20th century
American literature.
English literature.
Feminism in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors
Literature, Modern.
Women authors.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0691194270
9780691194271