Orlando: A Biography
17,00 €
- Marie Laniel et Naomi Toth (dir.)
- Langue : anglais
- 268 pages
- ISBN : 978-284016-598-9
- Date de parution : juin 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.
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. Moore
Christine Reynier
Bibliography
Contributors
Informations complémentaires
| Dimensions | 17 × 23 cm |
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