The Professional Ideal in the Victorian Novel

1. Introduction: Cool Heads and Warm Hearts
Susan E. Colón

2. Brains More Precious than Blood, or the Professional Logic of the Young England Trilogy
Susan E. Colón

3. “Manly Independence”: Autonomy in The Warden and Barchester Towers
Susan E. Colón

4. Professional Frontiers in Elizabeth Gaskell’s My Lady Ludlow
Susan E. Colón

5. È vero or È Falso? The Pastor as Mentor in Romola
Susan E. Colón

6. “One function in particular”: Specialization and the Service Ethic in “Janet’s Repentance” and Daniel Deronda
Susan E. Colón

7. “A Kind of Manager not Hitherto Existing”: Octavia Hill and the Professional Philanthropist
Susan E. Colón

8. Epilogue
Susan E. Colón

Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature