The Professional Ideal in the Victorian Novel

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The Professional Ideal in the Victorian Novel is written by S. Colon and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0230604250 (ISBN 10) and 9780230604254 (ISBN 13).

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.