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.
- ISBN13 9781107070240
- Publish Date 28 July 2014 (first published 9 July 2014)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 22 June 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Cambridge University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English