Sentencing Orlando: Virginia Woolf and the Morphology of the Modernist Sentence

'An exceptional collection of essays with a far-ranging textual and pedagogical approach, interweaving poised close readings and vibrant literary theory, cultural materiality and critical praxis. Embracing the heightened reverence of spirituality and the wild bawdiness of puns, the volume unpacks Orlando's embedded erotics, disruptive, syntax, artful ventriloquy and rapturous breathlessness to become a love letter to all women.'Claire Davidson, Université Sorbonne NouvelleThe first scholarly collection to highlight the dazzling variety of interconnected styles and contexts of Virginia Woolf's Orlando, by examining its key sentencesVirginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography presents an intriguing collage of different sentence styles. This book's 16 original essays, including contributions from Jane de Gay, Jane Goldman, Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Randi Koppen and Steven Putzel, offer fresh perspectives on Orlando through a unique attention to Woolf's sentences. Focusing on single sentences in order to address Orlando's many interlacing connections between aesthetics and context, it aims to recuperate this text as one of Woolf's most dynamic 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 with which this timely volume engages.Contributors include: Jane de Gay, Jane Goldman, Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Randi Koppen and Steven Putzel.Elsa Högberg is a research fellow at Uppsala University. Her research explores literary modernism and the ethics and politics of intimacy, with a particular focus on Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. She is the author of Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy, forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic.Amy Bromley is an early-career researcher in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on Virginia Woolf's short texts and the aesthetics of the literary sketch, and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.Cover image: Virginia Woolf by Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) © Man Ray Trust/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2017Cover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-1460-9Barcode