Virginia Woolf by Benjamin D. Hagen, Taya Sazama - 9781638041627

Virginia WoolfProfession and Performance\nAuthor(s): Benjamin D. Hagen, Taya Sazama\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Clemson University Digital Press, United States\nImprint: Clemson University Digital Press\nISBN-13: 9781638041627, 978-1638041627\nSynopsis\n---- available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.\n\nVirginia Woolf: Profession and Performance explores the intersection of two fundamental interests of Virginia Woolf, offering to feminist modernist studies cutting-edge readings of primary works, comparative studies of Woolf and other modernist professionalsperformers, and fresh accounts of Woolfs relationship to womens professional and public labor. The eleven chapters demonstrate the double valence of the volumes key words: performance conveys acts of staging as well as occupational work while profession encompasses careers and occupations as well as staged declarations. Moreover, performance evokes a sense of the performative: speech acts, ge.