Sentencing Orlando : : Virginia Woolf and the Morphology of the Modernist Sentence / / Elsa Högberg, Amy Bromley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Högberg, Elsa,; Bromley, Amy,
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Judith,; Avery, Todd,; Bahun, Sanja,; Bellamy, Suzanne,; Bowlby, Rachel,; Bromley, Amy,; Frøsig, Anna,; Gay, Jane de,; Goldman, Jane,; Hagen, Benjamin D.,; Högberg, Elsa,; Kolocotroni, Vassiliki,; Koppen, Randi,; Putzel, Steven,; Randall, Bryony,; Spiropoulou, Angeliki,; Staveley, Alice,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

Highlights the interconnected styles and contexts of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando by examining individual sentencesIf 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 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 FeaturesOffers 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

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Sentencing Orlando -- 1. ‘The Queen had come’: Orgasm and Arrival -- 2. ‘Something intricate and many-chambered’: Sexuality and the Embodied Sentence -- 3. Woolf, De Quincey and the Legacy of ‘Impassioned Prose’ -- 4. Rhythms of Revision and Revisiting: Unpicking the Past in Orlando -- 5. ‘Let us go, then, exploring’: Intertextual Conversations on the Meaning of Life -- 6. ‘. . . and nothing whatever happened’: Orlando’s Continuous Eruptive Form -- 7. Orlando, Greece and the Impossible Landscape -- 8. Orlando Famoso: Obscurity, Fame and History in Orlando -- 9. Bibliographic Parturition in Orlando: Books, Babies, Freedom and Fame -- 10. The Day of Orlando -- 11. Satzdenken, Indeterminacy and the Polyvalent Audience -- 12. In Amorous Dedication: The Phrase, the Figure and the Lover’s Discourse -- 13. A Spirit in Flux: Aestheticism, Evolution and Religion -- 14. Sir Thomas Browne and the Reading of Remains in Orlando -- 15. The Negress and the Bishop: On Marriage, Colonialism and the Problem of Knowledge -- 16. Orlando and the Politics of (In)Conclusiveness -- Aftersentence -- Index