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Carlyle, Thomas(1795–1881)
Thomas Carlyle, the essayist, historian, and philosopher of culture, was born in Ecclefechan, Scotland, the eldest son of a stern, puritanical stonemason. There can b...
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Biography EssayThomas Carlyle was an extremely long-lived Victorian author. He was also highly controversial, variously regarded as sagacious ana impious, a moral leader and a moral desperado, a radic...
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The British essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was the leading social critic of early Victorian England. Disseminating German idealist thought in his country, with Calvinist zeal he pre...
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Thomas Carlyle was a significant social thinker in Victorian-era England. The Scottish author wrote in many different forms and styles, including satirical journalism, essay, history and fiction. He c...
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Thomas Carlyle was an extremely long-lived Victorian author. He was also highly controversial, variously regarded as sage and impious, a moral leader, a moral desperado, a radical, a conservative, a C...
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Thomas Carlyle's writings so influenced nineteenth-century British social, political, and aesthetic thought that he has been called a Victorian prophet or sage. He rejected both traditional Christiani...
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In the following essay, Harris examines the rhetorical strategies used by Carlyle in "Signs of the Times, " and argues that while the essay may appear to be controversial and "ext...
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In the following essay, Cotsell investigates the impact of Carlyle's travels upon his writing and concludes that Carlyle's "sense of the world, as it reveals itself in his travel ...
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In the following essay, Vida surveys the influence of German literature and Romanticism on the views of Carlyle.
In affirming that any vestige, however feeble, of this divine spirit, is discernible i...
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In the following essay, Felluga maintains that some critics have attempted to "retailor" Sartor Resartus by viewing the work as "an ornate and stable system of thought. " F...
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In the following essay, Lamb contends that Carlyle, in his essay "Chartism, " exploited what had become the "myth of the French revolution, " in order to paint the Chartism...
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In the following essay, Roe discusses the only three essays Carlyle wrote on "English subjects," including Burns, Boswell's Life of Johnson, and Sir Walter Scott. Roe praises the ...
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In the following essay, Cassirer studies Carlyle's views on hero-worship, noting that Carlyle regarded hero-worship as a means of stabilizing the social and political disorder of his time. Cass...
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In the following essay, Delaura argues that the unity of Carlyle's lectures on heroes and hero-worship is based in Carlyle's attempt to identify the personal characteristics, message, an...
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The Victorian Age which extended from 1837 to 1901 was an era of great social change and intellectual advancement. "The steady advance of democratic ideals" and "the progress of scientific thought" (...
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Britain in the nineteenth century was experiencing a growth, a movement, and a change. Along with change came prosperity, wealth, and support. However, along with the good came the negative. The ne...
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Thomas Carlyle's essay On Heroes and Hero-Worship provides an educated look at our societies need for heroes. The points he made were clear and conveyed a sense of knowledge on the subject. Carlyle us...
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Carlyle, Thomas (1795–1881)
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Critical Essay by Wendell V. Harris
The Major Works of Thomas Carlyle
