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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

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Sentencing Orlando is, then, an overwhelming success: creative, rigorous, timely, and fun! Hoegberg and Bromley have provided an invaluable resource for both research and pedagogy... --Derek Ryan, University of Kent Woolf Studies Annual, Vol 25

"Sentencing Orlando is, then, an overwhelming success: creative, rigorous, timely, and fun! Högberg and Bromley have provided an invaluable resource for both research and pedagogy... --Derek Ryan, University of Kent ""Woolf Studies Annual, Vol 25 """

Sentencing Orlando is, then, an overwhelming success: creative, rigorous, timely, and fun!Högberg and Bromley have provided an invaluable resource for both research and pedagogy...--Derek Ryan, University of Kent ""Woolf Studies Annual, Vol 25"" 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 Davison, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle""

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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.

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