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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 thecounterweight of German thinkers; 5. The novelist: mixing realism, naturalismand myth-making; 6. The historian: tracking the idealistic - utopian andnational - in Romola and The Spanish Gypsy; 7. The 'radical': taking ananti-political stance in Felix Holt; 8. The encyclopaedist: transcending thepast in Middlemarch; 9. The visionary: transmitting ideals in Daniel Deronda;10. The intellectual: cultural critique in Impressions of Theophrastus Such;Works cited; Index.