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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... philosopher followed Thomas Carlyle's career avidly from its very beginnings . In 1842 , armed with an introduction from Ralph Waldo Emerson , he visited Carlyle several times at his house in Chelsea , even staying overnight on one ...
... philosopher followed Thomas Carlyle's career avidly from its very beginnings . In 1842 , armed with an introduction from Ralph Waldo Emerson , he visited Carlyle several times at his house in Chelsea , even staying overnight on one ...
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... philosophers he published books on Titian , Robert Schumann , the theater , pedagogy , Ralph Waldo Emerson as well as Carlyle , and many works of political engagement . When the Germans entered Paris in 1941 , his apartment was ...
... philosophers he published books on Titian , Robert Schumann , the theater , pedagogy , Ralph Waldo Emerson as well as Carlyle , and many works of political engagement . When the Germans entered Paris in 1941 , his apartment was ...
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... Philosopher , and the Utiltiarian system little better than the gross Idol - worship of a generation that has forsaken and knows not the ' Invisible God ' ? " ( Letters , 4 : 390 ) . In his 1829 essay " Signs of the Times " he ...
... Philosopher , and the Utiltiarian system little better than the gross Idol - worship of a generation that has forsaken and knows not the ' Invisible God ' ? " ( Letters , 4 : 390 ) . In his 1829 essay " Signs of the Times " he ...
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... philosopher , Thomas Brown made his reputation by his pub- lic defense of John Leslie in 1805 ( when Leslie was accused by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland of being an infidel ) and by his studies of David Hume's and ...
... philosopher , Thomas Brown made his reputation by his pub- lic defense of John Leslie in 1805 ( when Leslie was accused by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland of being an infidel ) and by his studies of David Hume's and ...
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