Thomas 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 radical and a conservative. Contradictions were rampant in the works of...

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 Christian. Contradictions were rampant in the works...

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 Christianity and the skepticism of the eighteenth century in...

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 preached against materialism and mechanism during the...

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 concerned himself primarily with the larger themes of...