Evelyn Tsz Yan Chan

Virginia Woolf and the Professions

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Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that Virginia Woolf used her writing to examine the professions and their significance in British society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781107070240
• ISBN-10: 1107070244
• Artikelnr.: 41239678

Autorenporträt

Evelyn Chan is currently Assistant Professor of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She completed her PhD on Virginia Woolf at the University of Cambridge in 2010.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The ethics and aesthetics of medicine
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.