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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... Sartor Thomas Carlyle . Reminiscences . Ed . Kenneth J. Fielding and Ian Campbell . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1997 . Thomas Carlyle . Sartor Resartus : The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books . With ...
... Sartor Thomas Carlyle . Reminiscences . Ed . Kenneth J. Fielding and Ian Campbell . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1997 . Thomas Carlyle . Sartor Resartus : The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books . With ...
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... Sartor Resartus was an autobiographical document . When Althaus attempts to draw a direct parallel between the character of Teufelsdröckh and the " contemplative melancholy nature " of his sub- ject , Carlyle remarks that " Sartor is ...
... Sartor Resartus was an autobiographical document . When Althaus attempts to draw a direct parallel between the character of Teufelsdröckh and the " contemplative melancholy nature " of his sub- ject , Carlyle remarks that " Sartor is ...
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... Sartor Resartus . Empedocles ' assertion " Thou hast no right to bliss , / No title from the Gods to welfare and repose " ( 1.2.160-61 ) echoes Teufelsdröckh's " What Act of Legislature was there that thou shouldst be Happy ? A little ...
... Sartor Resartus . Empedocles ' assertion " Thou hast no right to bliss , / No title from the Gods to welfare and repose " ( 1.2.160-61 ) echoes Teufelsdröckh's " What Act of Legislature was there that thou shouldst be Happy ? A little ...
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... Sartor Resartus Carlyle mocked utilitarian philosophy for equating the soul with the stomach and derided Bentham's moral arithmetic : " Foolish Word - monger , and Motive - grinder , that in thy Logic - mill hast an earthly mechanism ...
... Sartor Resartus Carlyle mocked utilitarian philosophy for equating the soul with the stomach and derided Bentham's moral arithmetic : " Foolish Word - monger , and Motive - grinder , that in thy Logic - mill hast an earthly mechanism ...
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... Sartor Resartus and Past and Present , with their sense of revelation , are likewise scriptural . History as Bible is a very apt metaphor , invoking its sacredness , the awe and wonder and moral meaning of it , and our obligation to ...
... Sartor Resartus and Past and Present , with their sense of revelation , are likewise scriptural . History as Bible is a very apt metaphor , invoking its sacredness , the awe and wonder and moral meaning of it , and our obligation to ...
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