Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction. Modernism’s Unfinished Lives 1
6. Chapter 1. Intimate Archives: The Preservation of Partnership 18
7. Chapter 2. Abandoned Lives: Impossible Projects and Archival Remains 50
8. Chapter 3. Modernists Explain Things to Me: Collecting as Queer Feminist Response 77
9. Chapter 4. The Sense of Unending: Revisiting Virginia Woolf ’s Orlando: A Biography 110
10. Coda. Biographical Criticism and the Passion Project Now 131
11. Abbreviations 141
12. Notes 143
13. Bibliography 173
14. Index 187