Crisis of sovereignty : global civil war in Yeats, Eliot, and Woolf -- Wars of language : Irish performativity in Yeats -- "Social welfare dream" : sovereignty, responsibility, and biopolitics in Yeats -- "Compassing material ends" : sovereignty, pluralism, and professionalism in Eliot -- Between nation and profession : aesthetic sovereignty in Woolf's Between the acts -- "Traditions of the private house" : sovereignty, civility, and ownership