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This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first edition (1928) text of Orlando: A Biography, with an introduction and explanatory annotations by Madelyn Detloff, accompanied by illustrations from earlier editions. Provocative reviews from Woolf's contemporaries and various written materials that place Orlando within a changing epoch. Seven critical essays on the novel's major themes: gender, sexuality, class, feminism, and performance. A chronology of Woolf's life and a selected bibliography.

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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was the world-renowned author of Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves, among other works. Madelyn Detloff is professor of English and professor of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University, Oxford, OH. She is the author of The Persistence of Modernism: Loss and Mourning in the Twentieth Century and The Value of Virginia Woolf. She is coeditor, with Brenda Helt, of Queer Bloomsbury and, with Diana Royer, of Virginia Woolf: Art, Education, and Internationalism. Her essays have appeared in numerous venues, including Modernism/modernity, Hypatia, Feminist Modernist Studies, Women’s Studies, JMMLA, Journal of Lesbian Studies, Literature Compass, and English Language Notes.

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