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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... human happiness , and he omitted the drama from the 1853 edition of his poems . But , as John P. Farrell has argued ( 251 ) , even his rejection of Empedocles was instinctively colored by Carlylean language . In the new volume's preface ...
... human happiness , and he omitted the drama from the 1853 edition of his poems . But , as John P. Farrell has argued ( 251 ) , even his rejection of Empedocles was instinctively colored by Carlylean language . In the new volume's preface ...
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... Human Rights Watch . For some years he was president of the Ligue and always active in its affairs . At the same time he led a vigorous professional life . Joining the professoriate at the Sorbonne in 1906 , he was a distinguished ...
... Human Rights Watch . For some years he was president of the Ligue and always active in its affairs . At the same time he led a vigorous professional life . Joining the professoriate at the Sorbonne in 1906 , he was a distinguished ...
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... human concerns to the principle of utility , the greatest happiness of the greatest number . Believing that humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain , he attempted to create a moral arithmetic which could determine the ...
... human concerns to the principle of utility , the greatest happiness of the greatest number . Believing that humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain , he attempted to create a moral arithmetic which could determine the ...
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... human race " ( 47 ) . It is reported that Mill made a public protest during one of Carlyle's harangues on Bentham . The occasion was the second of the 1840 lectures on heroes , " The Hero as Prophet . " In his spirited defense of ...
... human race " ( 47 ) . It is reported that Mill made a public protest during one of Carlyle's harangues on Bentham . The occasion was the second of the 1840 lectures on heroes , " The Hero as Prophet . " In his spirited defense of ...
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... human knowledge ; and the Wonder in the book of Job is not instigated by common- place religious miracles but rather by what Carlyle saw as the far more wonderful " mira- cles " in creation . " The book is not a philosoph- ical theodicy ...
... human knowledge ; and the Wonder in the book of Job is not instigated by common- place religious miracles but rather by what Carlyle saw as the far more wonderful " mira- cles " in creation . " The book is not a philosoph- ical theodicy ...
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