Book 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
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 May 2021
- 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
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- Sentencing OrlandoVirginia Woolf and the Morphology of the Modernist Sentence, pp. viiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2018