Introduction 1. The 'evangelical': starting out in a Christian culture 2. The apostate: moving beyond the Christian mythos 3. The journalist: editing, reviewing, shaping a worldview 4. The Germanist: balancing the counterweight of German thinkers 5. The novelist: mixing realism, naturalism and myth-making 6. The historian: tracking the idealistic - utopian and national - in Romola and The Spanish Gypsy 7. The 'radical': taking an anti-political stance in Felix Holt 8. The encyclopaedist: transcending the past in Middlemarch 9. The visionary: transmitting ideals in Daniel Deronda 10. The intellectual: cultural critique in Impressions of Theophrastus Such Works cited Index.
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