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The Professional Ideal in the Victorian Novel: The Works of Disraeli, Trollope, Gaskell, and Eliot

By Susan E. Colon

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
1403976139, 9781403976130, 9780230604254
Open Library ID
OL17227875M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
722 kB (739320 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
244\245
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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