Professional Ideal in the Victorian Novel

SUSAN E. COLON Assistant Professor in the Honors Program of Baylor University, USA.

• Cool Heads and Warm Hearts Brains More Precious Than Blood, or the Professional Logic of the Young England Trilogy È Vero or è Falso? The Pastor as Mentor in Romola 'Manly Independence': Autonomy in The Warden and Barchester Towers 'One function in particular': Specialization and the Service Ethic in 'Janet's Repentance' and Daniel Deronda Professional Frontiers in Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow 'A kind of manager not hitherto existing': Octavia Hill and the Professional Philanthropist

"This book is a thoughtful, engaging, and exceptionally well-written analysis of the tensions between the idealist and materialist discourses of professionalism in the mid-Victorian novel. Colon demonstrates that the mid-Victorian novel is central to formulating and criticizing the conflicts within professional self-definition. Colon's insight that the formulation of professional ideology is simultaneous with self-critique and self-reform is particularly fascinating and helps us revise our histories of the professions." - Francesca Sawaya, University of Oklahoma