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Article: "One function in particular": professionalism and specialization in Daniel Deronda.(Critical Essay)
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- Studies in the Novel
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- September 22, 2005
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Indeed he builds his goodness up So high, it topples down to the other side And makes a sort of badness.
--Aurora Leigh, III: 492-94
The process of professionalization during the nineteenth century took shape amid a rhetorical contest over the meanings and values of professionalism in which the purported service ethic of professionals played a major role. Given an ideological climate that Stefan Collini has aptly characterized as a "culture of altruism," in which only unself-interested actions and motives were held to be morally justifiable, advocates of the professions sought to explain their own professionalization in terms of public service while ...