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

This book examines diverse Victorian perspectives on professional issues to illuminate the dialectic between materialist and idealist rationalities which informs historical professionalism.

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Main Authors: Colon, Susan E
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230604254
Summary: This book examines diverse Victorian perspectives on professional issues to illuminate the dialectic between materialist and idealist rationalities which informs historical professionalism.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2007.
Carrier Form: 244 p.
ISBN: 9781403976130
9780230604254 :
0230604250 :
CLC: I11
Contents: Cool Heads and Warm Hearts * Brains More Precious Than Blood, or the Professional Logic of the Young England Trilogy * E Vero or e Falso? The Pastor as Mentor in Romola * A"Manly IndependenceA": Autonomy in The Warden and Barchester Towers * A"One function in particularA": Specialization and the Service Ethic in A"Janet's RepentanceA" and Daniel Deronda * Professional Frontiers in Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow * A"A kind of manager not hitherto existingA": Octavia Hill and the Professional Philanthropist.