Ruth, Jennifer.

Novel Professions Interested Disinterest and the Making of the Professional in the Victorian Novel / Jennifer Ruth. - 1 online resource (viii, 151 p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-146) and index.

Between labor and capital : Charlotte Brontė's The professor -- Becoming professional : time in David Copperfield -- The professional paradox : competitive examinations and Anthony Trollope's The three clerks -- Deprofessionalized critics in the twenty-first century.

Open Access

9780814272596 0814272592




Brontė, Charlotte, 1816-1855. Professor.
Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. Three clerks.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. David Copperfield.


Criticism--History--21st century.
Professions in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century


Electronic books.

PR878.P726 / R88 2006

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