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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... remarked to Moncure Daniel Conway in 1865 that " Emerson has always particularly interested me by retaining his reason while Carlyle , his fel- low - prophet , lost his " ( 2 : 468 ) . Arnold became an occasional visitor to Cheyne Row ...
... remarked to Moncure Daniel Conway in 1865 that " Emerson has always particularly interested me by retaining his reason while Carlyle , his fel- low - prophet , lost his " ( 2 : 468 ) . Arnold became an occasional visitor to Cheyne Row ...
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... remarked how " Benthamee Radicalism , the gospel of ' Enlightened Selfish- ness , ' dies out , or dwindles into Five - point Chartism , amid the tears and hootings of men " ( Past and Present , 33-34 ) . Carlyle's view of Bentham was an ...
... remarked how " Benthamee Radicalism , the gospel of ' Enlightened Selfish- ness , ' dies out , or dwindles into Five - point Chartism , amid the tears and hootings of men " ( Past and Present , 33-34 ) . Carlyle's view of Bentham was an ...
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... remarked that " his head " was " none of the biggest , poor little fellow ! " ( Letters , 22 : 274 ) . When the exiled historian was announced to the Carlyles as a potential visitor in the early months of 1849 , they did not look ...
... remarked that " his head " was " none of the biggest , poor little fellow ! " ( Letters , 22 : 274 ) . When the exiled historian was announced to the Carlyles as a potential visitor in the early months of 1849 , they did not look ...
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