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The Professional Ideal in the Victorian Novel: The Works of Disraeli, Trollope, Gaskell, and Eliot,Used
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Product 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. Review 'This book is a thoughtful, engaging, and exceptionally wellwritten analysis of the tensions between the idealist and materialist discourses of professionalism in the midVictorian novel. Coln demonstrates that the midVictorian novel is central to formulating and criticizing the conflicts within professional selfdefinition. Coln's insight that the formulation of professional ideology is simultaneous with selfcritique and selfreform is particularly fascinating and helps us revise our histories of the professions.' Francesca Sawaya, University of Oklahoma About the Author SUSAN E. COLON Assistant Professor in the Honors Program of Baylor University, USA.
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