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The professional ideal in the Victorian novel : the works of Disraeli, Trollope, Gaskell, and Eliot

Title: The professional ideal in the Victorian novel : the works of Disraeli, Trollope, Gaskell, and Eliot / Susan E. Colón.
Author: Colón, Susan E.
Publication: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Description

x, 234 p.; 22 cm.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-225) and index.

Contents

Brains more precious than blood, or the professional logic of the young England trilogy -- "Manly independence": autonomy in the Warden and Barchester towers -- Professional frontiers in Elizabeth Gaskell's my lady Ludlow -- Évero or é falso? The pastor as a mentor in Romola -- "One function in particular": specialization and the service ethic in "Janet's repentance" and Daniel Deronda -- "A kind of manager not hitherto existing": Octavia Hill and the professional philanthropist.

ISBN

9781403976130 (hbk.)
1403976139 (hbk.)

LCCN

2009278192
99941445336

OCLC

ocn148799099
148799099
SCSB-5563522

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Columbia University Libraries