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The passion projects : modernist women, intimate archives, unfinished lives /
This book examines biographical projects that modernist women writers undertook to resist the exclusion of their friends, colleagues, lovers, and companions from literary history.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.