Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cool Heads and Warm Hearts -- 1 Brains More Precious than Blood, or the Professional Logic of the Young England Trilogy -- 2 "Manly Independence": Autonomy in The Warden and Barchester Towers -- 3 Professional Frontiers in Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow -- 4 È Vero or È Falso? The Pastor as Mentor in Romola -- 5 "One function in particular": Specialization and the Service Ethic in "Janet's Repentance" and Daniel Deronda -- 6 "A Kind of Manager Not Hitherto Existing": Octavia Hill and the Professional Philanthropist -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.