Virginia Woolf and the Professions

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Evelyn Tsz Yan ChanCambridge University Press, 7/28/2014EAN 9781107070240, ISBN10: 1107070244Hardcover, 256 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.8 cmLanguage: EnglishThis 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.1. The ethics and aesthetics of medicine2. Virginia Woolf, amateurism and the professionalisation of literature3. Reconfiguring professionalismLily Briscoe and Miss La Trobe4. Translating the fact of the professions into the fiction of visionThe Years and Three Guineas5. A balancing actBetween the Acts and the aesthetics of specialisation. Show more