The Passion Projects (eBook)

Modernist Women, Intimate Archives, Unfinished Lives

Melanie Micir (Autor)

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2019
224 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19427-1 (ISBN)

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How modernist women writers used biographical writing to resist their exclusion from literary historyIt's impossible, now, to think of modernism without thinking about gender, sexuality, and the diverse movers and shakers of the early twentieth century. But this was not always so. The Passion Projects examines biographical projects that modernist women writers undertook to resist the exclusion of their friends, colleagues, lovers, and companions from literary history. Many of these works were vibrant efforts of modernist countermemory and counterhistory that became casualties in a midcentury battle for literary legitimacy, but that now add a new dimension to our appreciation of such figures as Radclyffe Hall, Gertrude Stein, Hope Mirrlees, and Sylvia Beach, among many others.Melanie Micir explores an extensive body of material, including Sylvia Townsend Warner's carefullly annotated letters to her partner Valentine Ackland, Djuna Barnes's fragmented drafts about the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Margaret Anderson's collection of modernist artifacts, and Virginia Woolf's joke biography of her friend and lover Vita Sackville-West, the novel Orlando. Whether published in encoded desire or squirreled away in intimate archives, these "e;passion projects"e; recorded life then in order to summon an audience now, and stand as important predecessors of queer and feminist recovery projects that have shaped the contemporary understanding of the field.Arguing for the importance of biography, The Passion Projects shows how women turned to this genre in the early twentieth century to preserve their lives and communities for future generations to discover.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.10.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 5 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: affair • Alice B. Toklas • Amateur • Anecdote • Ann Cvetkovich • Archive • archivist • A Room of One's Own • Autobiography • Berenice Abbott • Bildungsroman • Biographical Criticism • biographical novel • Biography • Cambridge University Press • Career • Criticism • curator • Diary • Djuna Barnes • Edward Said • Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven • Ezra Pound • Feminism • feminist history • feminist literary criticism • Fiction • Font Bureau • Future History (Heinlein) • Genre • George Eliot • Gertrude Stein • Harry Ransom Center • Hogarth Press • Homosexuality • Hope Mirrlees • Irene Gammel • Jack Halberstam • Jane Ellen Harrison • Jane Heap • Janet Flanner • jessa crispin • J. (newspaper) • Kate Zambreno • Leonard Woolf • Lesbian • Life Writing • Literary criticism • Literary modernism • Literature • Lytton Strachey • Mary Beard (classicist) • Memoir • Men Explain Things to Me • Mentorship • modernism • Modernity • Mrs. • narrative • New Criticism • novelist • obscenity • Pedagogy • Personal life • Poetry • preface • Prose • Publication • Queer Theory • Radclyffe Hall • rhetoric • romantic friendship • Scrutiny (journal) • Sean • Shakespeare and Company (bookstore) • She Died • Suggestion • Sylvia Beach • sylvia townsend warner • Symptom • The Little Review • The Other Hand • The Well of Loneliness • Thirty Years' War • three lives • t. h. white • T. S. Eliot • type design • Typeface • typography • V. • valentine ackland • Vera Brittain • Virginia Woolf • Vita Sackville-West • William Carlos Williams • Winifred Holtby • Woolf • Writer • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19427-0 / 0691194270
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19427-1 / 9780691194271