Sentencing Orlando

Virginia Woolf and the Morphology of the Modernist Sentence

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2018
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-1460-9 (ISBN)

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The present collection of 16 original essays offers fresh perspectives on Orlando through a unique attention to Woolf’s sentences.

Highlights the interconnected styles and contexts of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando by examining individual sentences
If the line is the privileged semantic unit in verse, we could ask whether the sentence plays the same role in prose. This possibility holds particular relevance for Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography, which presents an intriguing collage of different sentence styles. The present essay collection of 16 original essays offers fresh perspectives on Orlando through a unique attention to Woolf’s sentences. By focusing on single sentences in order to address the book’s many interlacing connections between aesthetics and context, it aims to recuperate Orlando as one of Woolf’s most dynamic textual experiments. To what extent does Orlando enact a politics of the sentence? How does Woolf’s manipulation of generic, gendered, sexual and racial boundaries play out on the level of the sentence? These are some of the questions that this timely volume engages. Contributors include: Jane de Gay, Jane Goldman, Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Randi Koppen and Steven Putzel.

Key Features
Offers fresh close readings of Woolf’s Orlando on the level of the sentence, and draws out the sentence as an important textual unit as well as thematic and contextual conceptPresents the first book-length study of the novel in a readable and engaging format, combining forceful intellect and research with an alertness to the text’s unique playfulnessCovers a wide range of topics including sexuality, gender, materiality, intimacy, nationality, colonialism, religiosity, theatricality and literary intertextualityDemonstrates the value for literary studies of a methodological focus on single sentences that combines readings of contextual history, politics, gender, and art with close textual analysis

Elsa Högberg is Research Fellow at the Department of English, Uppsala University. She is the author of Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy (2020) and co-editor, with Amy Bromley, of Sentencing Orlando: Virginia Woolf and the Morphology of the Modernist Sentence (Edinburgh University Press, 2018). Amy Bromley is a PhD student at the University of Glasgow specialising in Virginia Woolf’s short texts. She has published scholarly reviews and articles in The Journal of the Short Story in English, Virginia Woolf Miscellany and Glasgow Review of Books.

Introduction by Elsa Högberg and Amy Bromley 11

‘The Queen had come’: Orgasm and Arrival

Jane Goldman 30

‘Something intricate and many-chambered’: Sexuality and the Embodied

Sentence

Anna Frøsig 53

Woolf, De Quincey and the Legacy of ‘Impassioned Prose’

Elsa Högberg 70

Rhythms of Revision and Revisiting: Unpicking the Past in Orlando

Jane de Gay 87

‘Let us go, then, exploring’: Intertextual Conversations on the Meaning of Life

Sanja Bahun 104

‘. . . and nothing whatever happened’: Orlando’s Continuous Eruptive Form

Suzanne Bellamy 120

Orlando, Greece and the Impossible Landscape

Vassiliki Kolocotroni 137

Orlando Famoso: Obscurity, Fame and History in Orlando

Angeliki Spiropoulou 154

Bibliographic Parturition in Orlando: Books, Babies, Freedom, and Fame

Alice Staveley 171

The Day of Orlando

Bryony Randall 188

Satzdenken, Indeterminacy and the Polyvalent Audience

Steven Putzel 203

In Amorous Dedication: The Phrase, the Figure and The Lover’s Discourse

Amy Bromley 219

A Spirit in Flux: Aestheticism, Evolution and Religion

Todd Avery 235

Sir Thomas Browne and the Reading of Remains in Orlando

Benjamin D. Hagen 253

The Negress and the Bishop: On Marriage, Colonialism and the Problem of Knowledge

Randi Koppen 268

Orlando and the Politics of (In)Conclusiveness

Judith Allen 284

Aftersentence by Rachel Bowlby

Erscheinungsdatum	14.06.2017
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	501 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-1460-5 / 1474414605
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-1460-9 / 9781474414609
Zustand	Neuware