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That the narrator in George Eliot's novel Middlemarch (completed 1871) displays an astonishing breadth of knowledge may be partly explained by Eliot's reaction to a specializing division of labor that threatened an extinction of generalists. Some of Eliot's contemporaries attributed the nineteenth century's rapid specialization to an accelerating pace of knowledge production. But specialization, Eliot recognized, was not simply an effect of proliferating Information. The notion that specialization was essential to an individual's credibility was also an ideological product of professionalization. Nineteenth-century professional organizations actively fostered public distrust of nonprofessionals, an effect, Eliot feared, that might pressure laypersons, confronted with unfamiliar fields, to resign their curiosity and abdicate moral authority, conceding decision-making to professionals. Eliot's narrator serves as her rejoinder: an ideal of intellectual expansiveness.
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