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Virginia Woolf and the professions
- Title
- Virginia Woolf and the professions / Evelyn Tsz Yan Chan.
- Author
- Chan, Evelyn, 1982-
- Publication
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Request in advance | JFE 14-7204 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 219 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The ethics and aesthetics of healing: Virginia Woolf, medicine, and professionalisation; 2. Virginia Woolf, amateurism, and the professionalisation of literature; 3. Reconfiguring professionalism: Lily Briscoe and Miss La Trobe; 4. Translating the fact of the professions into the fiction of vision: The Years and Three Guineas; 5. A balancing act: Between the Acts and the aesthetics of specialisation.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-7204
- ISBN
- 9781107070240 (hardback)
- 1107070244 (hardback)
- 9781107657229 (paperback)
- 1107657229 (paperback)
- LCCN
- 2014002052
- OCLC
- YBP 2014002052
- Author
- Chan, Evelyn, 1982- author.
- Title
- Virginia Woolf and the professions / Evelyn Tsz Yan Chan.
- Publisher
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-7204