Virginia Woolf and the Professions /
Chan, Evelyn Tsz Yan,1982-author.
"This book explores Virginia Woolf's engagement with the professions in her life and writing. Woolf underscored the significance of the professions to society, such as the opportunity they provided for a decent income and the usefulness of professional accreditation. However, she also resisted their hierarchical structures and their role in creating an overspecialised and fragmented modernity, which prevented its members from leading whole, fulfilling lives. This book shows how Woolf's writing reshaped the professions so that they could better serve the individual and society, and argues that her search for alternatives to existing professional structures deeply influenced her literary methods and experimentation"--
"This book explores Virginia Woolf's engagement with the professions in her life and writing. Woolf underscored the significance of the professions to society, such as the opportunity they provided for a decent income and the usefulness of professional accreditation. However, she also resisted their hierarchical structures and their role in creating an overspecialised and fragmented modernity, which prevented its members from leading whole, fulfilling lives. This book shows how Woolf's writing reshaped the professions so that they could better serve the individual and society, and argues that her search for alternatives to existing professional structures deeply influenced her literary methods and experimentation"--
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index.
The ethics and aesthetics of healing : Virginia Woolf, medicine, and professionalisation -- Virginia Woolf, amateurism, and the professionalisation of literature -- Reconfiguring professionalism : Lily Briscoe and Miss La Trobe -- Translating the fact of the professions into the fiction of vision : The years and Three guineas -- A balancing act : Between the acts and the aesthetics of specialisation.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Literature and society
Professions in literature.