Download or read book The Critical Response to Thomas Carlyle s Major Works written by D. J. Trela and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1997-03-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1795, Thomas Carlyle was a preeminent figure in Victorian letters. Carlyle was widely reviewed, discussed, praised and criticized during his lifetime, because of his controversial ideas as well as his masterful biographies, histories and extended essays, all forms deemed more canonical in the nineteenth century. Although opinion about him and assessments of his work have fluctuated greatly in the years since his death in 1881, interest in his writings has seldom waned. This volume presents some of the most inaccessible and some of the best critical opinion dealing with four of Carlyle's major works that are arguably most representative of his thought. These includeSartor Resartus (1833-34), The French Revolution (1837), On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841), and ^IPast and Present^R (1843). Through reviews and essays, this reference work summarizes the critical reception of Carlyle's writings from their initial appearance to the present day. Born in 1795, Thomas Carlyle was one of the preeminent figures of Victorian letters. Carlyle was widely reviewed, discussed, praised and criticized during his lifetime, primarily because of his masterful biographies, histories, and extended essays, all forms deemed more canonical in the nineteenth century. His Sartor Resartus (1833-34) anticipated the spiritual crisis of the Victorian period, engaged the ideas of German philosophers, and was influential in shaping American Transcendentalism and the works of such authors as Emerson and Thoreau. Carlyle's historical writings were consistently praised for their vigorous style, their vividness, and their accuracy. Although opinion about him and assessments of his work have fluctuated greatly in the years since his death in 1881, interest in his writings has seldom waned. This volume presents some of the most inaccessible and some of the best critical opinion dealing with four of Carlyle's major works that are arguably most representative of his thought. These include ^ISartor Resartus^R (1833-34), ^IThe French Revolution^R (1837), ^IOn Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History^R (1841), and ^IPast and Present^R (1843). Through reviews and essays, this reference work summarizes the critical response to Carlyle's writings from their initial appearance to the present day. The volume emphasizes early reviews while the selections of critical articles from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries reflect mature assessments of Carlyle and include pieces that are not well known or easily accessible. The volume begins with an introductory essay that discusses Carlyle's response to his reviewers, and it closes with a bibliography of major studies.

Download or read book Thomas Carlyle written by Fred Kaplan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize finalist: “The definitive biography”of the Victorian-era writer and historian (The Times Literary Supplement). A Pulitzer finalist that draws upon years of research and unpublished letters, Thomas Carlyle examines the life of the Victorian genius. Carlyle was the author of Sartor Resartus and The French Revolution: A History, and he possessed one of literature’s most flamboyant prose styles. Despite a childhood beset by anxiety and illness, Carlyle was indefatigable in his literary production. Fred Kaplan delves into the author’s intense personal life, which includes his turbulent marriage to author Jane Baillie Welsh and his disillusionment with religion. Kaplan is a devoted and sensitive explicator, vividly resurrecting both Carlyle and his Victorian setting.

Download or read book The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle opens a window onto the lives of two of the Victorian world's most accomplished, perceptive, and unusual inhabitants. Scottish writer and historian Thomas Carlyle and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle, attracted to them a circle of foreign exiles, radicals, feminists, revolutionaries, and major and minor writers from across Europe and the United States. The collection is regarded as one of the finest and most comprehensive literary archives of the nineteenth century" -- Provided by publisher's website.

Download or read book Critical and Miscellaneous Essays Voltaire written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Commissioned Spirits written by Jonathan Arac and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dandies and Desert Saints written by James Eli Adams and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Choice "Outstanding Academic Book for 1996"While drawing on work in feminism, queer theory, and cultural history, Dandies and Desert Saints challenges scholars to rethink simplistic notions of Victorian manhood. James Eli Adams examines masculine identity in Victorian literature from Thomas Carlyle through Oscar Wilde, analyzing authors who identify the age's ideal of manhood as the power of self-discipline. What distinguishes Adams's book from others in the recent explosion of interest in masculinity is his refusal to approach masculinity primarily in terms of "patriarchy" or "phallogocentrism" or within the binary of homosexualities and heterosexualities.

Download or read book I Too Am Here written by Jane Welsh Carlyle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating collection of Jane Carlyle's letters are arranged in sections corresponding to the main themes in her life. This is a book to read right through with riveted enjoyment. It is one of the most fascinating correspondences in the English language.

Download or read book History and Community written by Florence S. Boos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume, originally published in 1992, examine some of the pervasive implications of Victorian medievalism, and assess its creative manifestations and dual capacities for expression of reformist anger and escapist retreat. Some of the emotional and intllectual reasons for the strong Victorian attraction to ‘medieval’ history and litereature are discussed and emblematic responses to this attraction are examined.

Download or read book Byron and the Victorians written by Andrew Elfenbein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first full-length study of Byron's influence on Victorian writers, concentrating on Carlyle, Emily Bronte, Tennyson, Bulwer Lytton, Disraeli, and Wilde. Rather than treating influence in terms of source study or of intersubjective struggle, it demonstrates how institutions of cultural production mediate the access that later writers have to earlier ones."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Carlyle and the Economics of Terror written by Mary Desaulniers and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Carlyle's difficult and obscure prose - the bane of every reader who has attempted to come to terms with his works - has often been interpreted as a reflection of the author's temperament or idiosyncrasies. Mary Desaulniers, however, argues that Carlyle's language is a deliberate strategy for revisioning language and places it within an "economics" of representation. By situating his prose within the Gothic tradition, with its history of resistance to linguistic transparency, Desaulniers makes the provocative claim that in The French Revolution Carlyle uses revisionary Gothicism as a linguistic vehicle for economic and political issues.

Download or read book Arguing with the Past written by Gillian Beer and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1989 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this elegantly written collection Gillian Beer considers the difficulty of reading the past in essays on Thomas Carlyle, Philip Sidney, Samuel Richardson and Virginia Woolf.

Download or read book The German Idea written by Rosemary Ashton and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four writers concerned in this book are Coleridge, Carlyle, George Eliot and George Henry Lewes. The book explores the history of the impact in Britain of German classical literature and thought (Kant, Lessing, Schiller and pre-eminently Goethe) on these four writers as well as other major figures like Scott, Wordsworth, De Qunicey and Matthew Arnold.

Download or read book Victorian Thinkers written by A. Laurence Le Quesne and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains critical examinations of the works of four Victorian thinkers: Carlyle by AL Le Quesne; Ruskin by GPO Landow; Arnold by S Collini and Morris by P Stansky.

Download or read book Froude s Life of Carlyle written by James Anthony Froude and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Not by Fact Alone written by John Leonard Clive and published by Harvill Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fact Into Figure written by Herbert L. Sussman and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary criticism has tended to regard the Pre-Raphaelites merely as failed modernists. By placing the Brotherhood securely within its Victorian setting, however, Professor Sussman discovers it working within a distinctly nineteenth-century mode of typology or figuralism practiced by Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin, who in the 1840s articulated an aesthetic that, by fusing the tradition of typological Bible-reading with the new modes of experimental science and scientific history, found in the detailed, accurate representation of natural and historical fact the means to translate fact into figure, into the very embodiment of transcendental, divine meaning. When examined in light of this connection and coherence, the Brotherhood emerges as a band of serious artists who engaged the crucial artistic and cultural questions of their age. Dr. Sussman sees them as occupying a point of transition between the sacramental and the secular artists, and as perhaps among the last artists in the Western tradition who, through living in a secular age, sought to imbue the facts of history and contemporary life with sacred meaning through creation, in the modernist fashion, of a new iconography to replace a shared but exhausted cultural tradition. By rejecting the biographical approach that has characterized previous studies of the Brotherhood in order to treat as a unified whole the art and poetry it produced, Dr. Sussman is able to demonstrate conclusively that the work of Holman Hunt, John Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, during the brief period of the group's existence, possesses a self-conscious coherence that draws upon this Victorian figuralism. Herbert L. Sussman is associate professor of English at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and the author of Victorians and the Machine: The Literary Response to Technology (Harvard University Press, 1968).

Download or read book Devolving English Literature written by Robert Crawford and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing English, American, Irish, Australian, and other writings, Crawford concentrates on Scottish literature, which furnishes the most extended and acute model of a culture concerned to maintain and develop its own identity while engaging with England's linguistic and political dominance. Starting with the eighteenth-century 'Scottish invention of English Literature', Crawford traces in Boswell, Burns, and others the evolution of a distinctively British Literature. This process culminated in Scott who, with Carlyle, encouraged nineteenth-century American writing and left rich legacies both to anthropology and to the literary Modernism of Eliot, Pound, Joyce, and MacDiarmid. This essentially provincial phenomenon of Modernism underwrites even Larkin, as well as such sophisticated post-British 'barbarian' poets as Heaney, Harrison, Dunn, Murray, and Walcott