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.

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’.

• Introduction by Elsa Högberg and Amy Bromley 11‘The Queen had come’: Orgasm and ArrivalJane Goldman 30‘Something intricate and many-chambered’: Sexuality and the Embodied SentenceAnna Frøsig 53Woolf, De Quincey and the Legacy of ‘Impassioned Prose’Elsa Högberg 70Rhythms of Revision and Revisiting: Unpicking the Past in OrlandoJane de Gay 87‘Let us go, then, exploring’: Intertextual Conversations on the Meaning of LifeSanja Bahun 104‘. . . and nothing whatever happened’: Orlando’s Continuous Eruptive FormSuzanne Bellamy 120Orlando, Greece and the Impossible LandscapeVassiliki Kolocotroni 137Orlando Famoso: Obscurity, Fame and History in OrlandoAngeliki Spiropoulou 154Bibliographic Parturition in Orlando: Books, Babies, Freedom, and FameAlice Staveley 171The Day of OrlandoBryony Randall 188Satzdenken, Indeterminacy and the Polyvalent AudienceSteven Putzel 203In Amorous Dedication: The Phrase, the Figure and The Lover’s DiscourseAmy Bromley 219A Spirit in Flux: Aestheticism, Evolution and ReligionTodd Avery 235Sir Thomas Browne and the Reading of Remains in OrlandoBenjamin D. Hagen 253The Negress and the Bishop: On Marriage, Colonialism and the Problem of KnowledgeRandi Koppen 268Orlando and the Politics of (In)ConclusivenessJudith Allen 284Aftersentence by Rachel Bowlby

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.

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’.

• Introduction by Elsa Högberg and Amy Bromley 11‘The Queen had come’: Orgasm and ArrivalJane Goldman 30‘Something intricate and many-chambered’: Sexuality and the Embodied SentenceAnna Frøsig 53Woolf, De Quincey and the Legacy of ‘Impassioned Prose’Elsa Högberg 70Rhythms of Revision and Revisiting: Unpicking the Past in OrlandoJane de Gay 87‘Let us go, then, exploring’: Intertextual Conversations on the Meaning of LifeSanja Bahun 104‘. . . and nothing whatever happened’: Orlando’s Continuous Eruptive FormSuzanne Bellamy 120Orlando, Greece and the Impossible LandscapeVassiliki Kolocotroni 137Orlando Famoso: Obscurity, Fame and History in OrlandoAngeliki Spiropoulou 154Bibliographic Parturition in Orlando: Books, Babies, Freedom, and FameAlice Staveley 171The Day of OrlandoBryony Randall 188Satzdenken, Indeterminacy and the Polyvalent AudienceSteven Putzel 203In Amorous Dedication: The Phrase, the Figure and The Lover’s DiscourseAmy Bromley 219A Spirit in Flux: Aestheticism, Evolution and ReligionTodd Avery 235Sir Thomas Browne and the Reading of Remains in OrlandoBenjamin D. Hagen 253The Negress and the Bishop: On Marriage, Colonialism and the Problem of KnowledgeRandi Koppen 268Orlando and the Politics of (In)ConclusivenessJudith Allen 284Aftersentence by Rachel Bowlby