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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.
Editions of Virginia Woolf and the Professions
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781107070240
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781107657229
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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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What is Virginia Woolf and the Professions about?
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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Virginia Woolf and the Professions?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism > Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book Virginia Woolf and the Professions?
Evelyn Tsz Yan Chan
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Virginia Woolf and the Professions is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781107070240) and paperback(ISBN 9781107657229)