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1 online resource |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 17, 2019) |
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Feminism in literature
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Gender identity in literature
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
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Women authors -- History -- 20th century
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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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LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors
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Literature, Modern.
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Women authors.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0691194270 |
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9780691194271 |
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