Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Abbreviations ix
6. Introduction: Sentencing Orlando 1
7. 1. ‘The Queen had come’: Orgasm and Arrival 15
8. 2. ‘Something intricate and many-chambered’: Sexuality and the Embodied Sentence 32
9. 3. Woolf, De Quincey and the Legacy of ‘Impassioned Prose’ 44
10. 4. Rhythms of Revision and Revisiting: Unpicking the Past in Orlando 56
11. 5. ‘Let us go, then, exploring’: Intertextual Conversations on the Meaning of Life 68
12. 6. ‘. . . and nothing whatever happened’: Orlando’s Continuous Eruptive Form 80
13. 7. Orlando, Greece and the Impossible Landscape 92
14. 8. Orlando Famoso: Obscurity, Fame and History in Orlando 104
15. 9. Bibliographic Parturition in Orlando: Books, Babies, Freedom and Fame 116
16. 10. The Day of Orlando 128
17. 11. Satzdenken, Indeterminacy and the Polyvalent Audience 139
18. 12. In Amorous Dedication: The Phrase, the Figure and the Lover’s Discourse 151
19. 13. A Spirit in Flux: Aestheticism, Evolution and Religion 162
20. 14. Sir Thomas Browne and the Reading of Remains in Orlando 175
21. 15. The Negress and the Bishop: On Marriage, Colonialism and the Problem of Knowledge 186
22. 16. Orlando and the Politics of (In)Conclusiveness 198
23. Aftersentence 210
24. Index 217