Novel professions
Subtitle: interested disinterest and the making of the professional in the Victorian novel
By: Jennifer Ruth.
Series: Victorian critical interventions
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.; Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882.; Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Professions in literature.; Criticism -- History -- 21st century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Between labor and capital : Charlotte Brontë's The professor; title: Becoming professional : time in David Copperfield; title: The professional paradox : competitive examinations and Anthony Trollope's The three clerks; title: Deprofessionalized critics in the twenty-first century.