Cross-Dressing as Ambisexual Style: Queer Twists in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

Cross-Dressing as Ambisexual Style: Queer Twists in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

This paper examines cross-dressing in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. Reading the novel’s gender topsy-turviness in light of the carnivalesque 1910 Dreadnought Hoax, for which Woolf cross-dressed as an Abyssinian Prince, I explore the seductiveness of queer non-conformity. Rather than focusing on Butleria...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adèle CASSIGNEUL
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2019-06-01
Series:E-REA
Subjects:
Virginia Woolf
Orlando
Dreadnought Hoax
cross-dressing
gender
sexual difference
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/erea/7688

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