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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... expressed grati- tude to Carlyle for making Goethe available to English readers as " a strong tower into which the doubter and despairer might run and be safe , " and he praised Carlyle's translation of Wilhelm Meister for its ...
... expressed grati- tude to Carlyle for making Goethe available to English readers as " a strong tower into which the doubter and despairer might run and be safe , " and he praised Carlyle's translation of Wilhelm Meister for its ...
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... expressed sympathy with Arnold's passionate concern for the plight of the poor . On the issue of the pro- posed society Carlyle was predictably diffident but offered to lend his support if it were formed ( Letters , 12 : 10-12 ) . While ...
... expressed sympathy with Arnold's passionate concern for the plight of the poor . On the issue of the pro- posed society Carlyle was predictably diffident but offered to lend his support if it were formed ( Letters , 12 : 10-12 ) . While ...
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... expression . " Jane " saw nothing of the imperti- nence and hauteur which people impute to her— only a certain ... expressed her growing admiration for Lady Harriet but doubted the prospects of their becoming intimate : " I fear ...
... expression . " Jane " saw nothing of the imperti- nence and hauteur which people impute to her— only a certain ... expressed her growing admiration for Lady Harriet but doubted the prospects of their becoming intimate : " I fear ...
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... expressed his fervent wish that " noble , patient , deep , pious and solid Germany should be at length welded into a Nation , and become Queen of the Continent , instead of vapouring , vainglorious , gesticulating , quarrel- some ...
... expressed his fervent wish that " noble , patient , deep , pious and solid Germany should be at length welded into a Nation , and become Queen of the Continent , instead of vapouring , vainglorious , gesticulating , quarrel- some ...
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