The "evangelical": starting out in a Christian culture
The apostate: moving beyond the Christian mythos
The journalist: editing, reviewing, shaping a worldview
The Germanist: balancing the counterweight of German thinkers
The novelist: mixing realism, naturalism and mythmaking
The historian: tracking ideals-utopian and national-in Romola and The Spanish gypsy
The "radical": taking an anti-political stance in Felix Holt
The encyclopedist: transcending the past in Middlemarch
The visionary: transmitting ideals in Daniel Deronda
The intellectual: cultural critique in Impressions of theophrastus Such.