The Carlyle EncyclopediaMark Cumming Written by more than fifty international researchers in Victorian studies, The Carlyle Encyclopedia is the new standard, single-volume reference work on Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. It offers concise but detailed accounts of central issues related to the Carlyles' lives and writings, and provides bibliographic citations that direct the reader's attention to a wide range of additional sources. It presents the lives and literary achievements of two remarkable individuals in the context of the rich and challenging Victorian age. The Carlyle Encyclopedia will interest a variety of readers who concern themselves with literature, social history, the history of ideas, Victorian culture, and Scottish studies. Mark Cumming teaches nineteenth-century literature at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. |
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... Mill , Charles Buller , Richard Monckton Milnes , George Stovin Venables , and William Makepeace Thackeray . For fifteen years she and her husband entertained the Carlyles at their various family homes : Bath House , in Piccadilly ...
... Mill , Charles Buller , Richard Monckton Milnes , George Stovin Venables , and William Makepeace Thackeray . For fifteen years she and her husband entertained the Carlyles at their various family homes : Bath House , in Piccadilly ...
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... Mill , as Mill himself averred . As Carlyle has at times been thought to be an anti - Semite and a prophet of Nazism , it is sig- nificant that this profoundly anti - Nazi Jew never mentions the issue . Instead , he acclaims the pas ...
... Mill , as Mill himself averred . As Carlyle has at times been thought to be an anti - Semite and a prophet of Nazism , it is sig- nificant that this profoundly anti - Nazi Jew never mentions the issue . Instead , he acclaims the pas ...
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... Mill and his son John Stuart Mill , Bentham helped to establish some of the practi- cal institutions of English radical politics , including the Westminster Review and Victor Basch 1863-1944 , un intellectuel cosmopolite . University ...
... Mill and his son John Stuart Mill , Bentham helped to establish some of the practi- cal institutions of English radical politics , including the Westminster Review and Victor Basch 1863-1944 , un intellectuel cosmopolite . University ...
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... mill hast an earthly mechanism for the Godlike itself , and wouldst fain grind me out Virtue from the husks of Pleasure , -I tell thee , Nay ! " ( Sartor , 121-22 ) . The whole story of Teufelsdröckh and his rejection of a mechanistic ...
... mill hast an earthly mechanism for the Godlike itself , and wouldst fain grind me out Virtue from the husks of Pleasure , -I tell thee , Nay ! " ( Sartor , 121-22 ) . The whole story of Teufelsdröckh and his rejection of a mechanistic ...
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... Mill to his feet with an emphatic No ! " ( Garnett , 171 ) . In a subsequent lecture , " The Hero as Man of Letters , " Carlyle showed himself slightly chastened and repentant for his rhetorical excesses but did not markedly shift his ...
... Mill to his feet with an emphatic No ! " ( Garnett , 171 ) . In a subsequent lecture , " The Hero as Man of Letters , " Carlyle showed himself slightly chastened and repentant for his rhetorical excesses but did not markedly shift his ...
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