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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... society , literature , and politics . Despite shifting critical currents , Carlyle has remained a central figure in the study of Victorian culture . Jane Welsh Carlyle ( 1801–1866 ) has attracted attention , not only in studies of ...
... society , literature , and politics . Despite shifting critical currents , Carlyle has remained a central figure in the study of Victorian culture . Jane Welsh Carlyle ( 1801–1866 ) has attracted attention , not only in studies of ...
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... society and argued that a lack of culture and intelligence prevented the English aristoc- racy from being the redemptive force Carlyle had hoped it would be . BIBLIOGRAPHY Arnold , Matthew . Culture and Anarchy , with Friendship's ...
... society and argued that a lack of culture and intelligence prevented the English aristoc- racy from being the redemptive force Carlyle had hoped it would be . BIBLIOGRAPHY Arnold , Matthew . Culture and Anarchy , with Friendship's ...
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... society Carlyle was predictably diffident but offered to lend his support if it were formed ( Letters , 12 : 10-12 ) . While Carlyle could not extend full sympathy to Arnold's role as a cler- gyman in the Church of England ( 13 : 298-99 ) ...
... society Carlyle was predictably diffident but offered to lend his support if it were formed ( Letters , 12 : 10-12 ) . While Carlyle could not extend full sympathy to Arnold's role as a cler- gyman in the Church of England ( 13 : 298-99 ) ...
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... society , to the workers . He acclaims espe- cially Carlyle's insight into the problems of democracy : although our revolutions and decla- rations of the rights of man are indispensable , democracy itself does not solve all our problems ...
... society , to the workers . He acclaims espe- cially Carlyle's insight into the problems of democracy : although our revolutions and decla- rations of the rights of man are indispensable , democracy itself does not solve all our problems ...
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... Society . He can shatter it in pieces ; no thanks to him , for its old fastenings are quite rotten : but he cannot reor- ganise it ; this is work for quite others than he " ( Letters , 5 : 212 ) . In Sartor Resartus Carlyle mocked ...
... Society . He can shatter it in pieces ; no thanks to him , for its old fastenings are quite rotten : but he cannot reor- ganise it ; this is work for quite others than he " ( Letters , 5 : 212 ) . In Sartor Resartus Carlyle mocked ...
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