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The Professional Ideal in the Victorian Novel
The Works of Disraeli, Trollope, Gaskell, and Eliot
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The Professional Ideal in the Victorian Novel
The Works of Disraeli, Trollope, Gaskell, and Eliot
About this book
This book makes the claim that Victorian novels do not simply reflect professional ideology; they also scrutinize its dilemmas, contradictions, and limitations. In this volume, innovative readings of canonical texts like Sybil, Barchester Towers, Romola, and Daniel Deronda accompany groundbreaking work on less familiar texts like Tancred and My Lady Ludlow to illuminate the Victorians' own struggles with the emerging professional ideology. The Victorians' engagement with fundamental ideas of professional identity such as autonomy, meritocracy, and the service ethic reveal professionalism's dual basis in materialist and idealist rationalities.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- The Professional Ideal in the Victorian Novel
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Cool Heads and Warm Hearts
- Chapter 1 Brains More Precious than Blood, or the Professional Logic of the Young England Trilogy
- Chapter 2 āManly Independenceā: Autonomy in The Warden and Barchester Towers
- Chapter 3 Professional Frontiers in Elizabeth Gaskellās My Lady Ludlow
- Chapter 4 Ć vero or Ć Falso? The Pastor as Mentor in Romola
- Chapter 5 āOne function in particularā: Specialization and the Service Ethic in āJanetās Repentanceā and Daniel Deronda
- Chapter 6 āA Kind of Manager not Hitherto Existingā: Octavia Hill and the Professional Philanthropist
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index