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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... Victorian Britain . His writings profoundly affected how his age viewed history , religion , society , literature , and politics . Despite shifting critical currents , Carlyle has remained a central figure in the study of Victorian ...
... Victorian Britain . His writings profoundly affected how his age viewed history , religion , society , literature , and politics . Despite shifting critical currents , Carlyle has remained a central figure in the study of Victorian ...
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... Victorian culture . Jane Welsh Carlyle has attracted attention , not only in studies of Victorian domesticity and gender relations , but also as a writer in her own right , though in a more private and limited sphere . The Carlyles have ...
... Victorian culture . Jane Welsh Carlyle has attracted attention , not only in studies of Victorian domesticity and gender relations , but also as a writer in her own right , though in a more private and limited sphere . The Carlyles have ...
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... Victorian Britain's most distinguished poets and critics , Matthew Arnold addressed many of the central issues that Thomas Carlyle had defined for his age : the frag- mented , alienated self , the erosion of faith , and the spiritual ...
... Victorian Britain's most distinguished poets and critics , Matthew Arnold addressed many of the central issues that Thomas Carlyle had defined for his age : the frag- mented , alienated self , the erosion of faith , and the spiritual ...
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... Victorian Studies , by Geoffrey and Kathleen Tillotson , 216–38 . London : The Athlone Press , 1965 . ARNOLD ... Victorians ( 1918 ) . Thomas Arnold was deeply impressed by The French Revolution , which he took as evidence that Carlyle ...
... Victorian Studies , by Geoffrey and Kathleen Tillotson , 216–38 . London : The Athlone Press , 1965 . ARNOLD ... Victorians ( 1918 ) . Thomas Arnold was deeply impressed by The French Revolution , which he took as evidence that Carlyle ...
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... Victorian Sage John Holloway argues that the great Victorian writers , in the face of the erosion of orthodox religion , present themselves as sages , teachers , prophets , to revise the old views of the world and of humanity's place in ...
... Victorian Sage John Holloway argues that the great Victorian writers , in the face of the erosion of orthodox religion , present themselves as sages , teachers , prophets , to revise the old views of the world and of humanity's place in ...
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