Orlando: a biography

Affirming liberty

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268 pages, parution le 13/06/2025

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En 1928, Virginia Woolf imagine la vie d’Orlando, né homme dans l’Angleterre élisabéthaine, devenu femme à Constantinople au XVIIe siècle, qui traverse les époques jusqu’au présent. Un siècle plus tard, ce texte hybride, qui échappe à toute catégorisation et se joue des normes, continue de nous interroger sur notre rapport au genre, à l’histoire et aux identités individuelles et collectives.

Virginia Woolf's Orlando, a fantastic figure defying the constraints of time and gender, continues to fascinate. Woolf has us meet him as a young aristocrat in Elizabethan England, follow his loves, disappointments and ambitions to Constantinople where he becomes she, then keep on her trace as she traverses Enlightenment and Victorian London before arriving with a shock in the present of 1928 as an accomplished poetess of 36 years of age. This volume explores Woolf's queer approach to biography, her writing of history, and the politics and ethics of the text's treatment of gender, empire, race, class and identity - lending an ear all the while to its laughter, play, and musings on love, solitude, and literature. This mock-biography of Vita Sackville-West, which Woolf planned as an "escapade" and dashed off faster than her other works, marked an unexpected turning point in her career, bringing her commercial success and financial stability. Yet its soaring popularity in recent years would have surpassed all her expectations. If we return to it so often, it is perhaps because Orlando's constancy and metamorphoses make her story an extraordinary affirmation of liberty.

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Orlando, Affirming Liberty

Naomi Toth

Strange biography

“Only a head”: Gendered and Racialised Ways of Seeingand Reading the Cover Illustration in Orlando: A Biography

Jane Goldman

The Rhetoric of Honesty: Realism, Biographical Conventions and the “Reader’s Part” in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

Olivier Hercend

“No biographer could possibly guess this important fact about my life”: Orlando and “Unrecorded” Biography

Xavier Le Brun

Shaking off “the firm […] ground of ascertained truth”: Orlando, Sexual Science, and Lesbian Lives

Aude Haffen

Playing with History

Virginia Woolf’s Palimpsestuous “New Historiography”in Orlando

Anne Besnault

Orlando’s London and the longue durée of English Literature: Voices Streaming Endlessly

Laurent Folliot and Juliana Lopoukhine

Anemomorphosis: The Workings of the Wind in Chapter V of Orlando

Marie Laniel

Vampirism and Intertextuality: Virginia Woolf’s, Eileen Atkins’s and Christine Orban’s Geneses of Orlando

Monica Latham

Politics and Ethics

Towards a Heuristics of Anachronistic Reading: From Lesbian, Queer, and Trans Studies to Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography, and Back Again

Valérie Favre

Otherness in Orlando: A Biography: Gender and Orientalism Revisited

Floriane Reviron-Piégay

Orlando’s Ethical and Aesthetic Principles: Virginia Woolf’s Response to G. E. MooreChristine Reynier

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest
Collection	Intercalaires : agrégation d'anglais
Parution	13/06/2025
Nb. de pages	268
Format	16.9 x 23.1
Couverture	Broché
Poids	376g
EAN13	9782840165989