Virginia Woolf and the Professions
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Virginia Woolf and the Professions

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Virginia Woolf and the Professions

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Table of contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. List of abbreviations
  8. Introduction
  9. Part I Two Professions and Three Women of Vocation
  10. Part II Literary Aesthetics, the Professions and the Specialisation of Society
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index

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