Eighteenth-Century Literary Fragments: Queering the Fiction of "Finished" Work.

One of the most accepted fictions in literature is that a work will, at some point in its existence, be completed. In this essay, we queer that assumption, challenging its tenets through examining taxonomies and eighteenth-century categorizations alongside Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" (179...

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Publicado en:Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 513 - 517
Autores principales: Meadows, Lucien Darjeun, Lynn, Leia
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Publicado: University of Toronto Press Oct2023
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          Meadows, Lucien Darjeun
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          Doctoral candidate researching queer ecologies and British poetics at the University of Denver, Colorado, United States
          Denver and residing in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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        Unfinished books
        18th century fiction
        Kubla Khan (Book)
        Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
        Hyperion (Poem : Keats)
        Keats, John, 1795-1821
        Maria: Or, the Wrongs of Woman (Book)
        Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
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          Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
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          Keats, John, 1795-1821
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