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The Critical Response to Thomas Carlyle's Major Works
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Edited by D. J. Trela and Rodger L. Tarr
ISBN: 0-313-29107-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29107-4
224 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 3/30/1997
List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
Series Number: 27
Reviews:
  • [T]his is a useful volume to put on the shelf next to other valuable collections of responses to the work of Thomas Carlyle...
    —Victorian Periodicals Review
  • In short, this is a worthwhile and useful contribution to Carlyle studies.
    —Studies in Scottish Literature
Description: 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 Sartor Resartus (1833-34), The French Revolution (1837), On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841), and Past and Present (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.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse
  • Introduction
  • Critical Response to Sartor Resartus
  • The Sun, Anon.
  • Knickerbocker Magazine, Anon.
  • Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Anon.
  • Monthly Review, Anon.
  • Metropolitan Magazine, Anon.
  • The Clothes Philosophy of Carlyle, J.
  • Carlyle and the Open Secret of His Life by Henry Larkin
  • The Victorian Age of English Literature by Margaret Oliphant
  • "'Perpetual Metamorphoses'; The Refusal of Certainty in Carlyle's Sartor Resartus" by Colin N. Manlove
  • Critical Response to The French Revolution
  • Literary Gazette, and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Anon.
  • Monthly Review, Anon.
  • "New Books, Briefly Noticed, but After Thorough Perusal"
  • The Examiner by [John Forster]
  • Blackwood's by [John Wilson]
  • Christian Examiner, Anon.
  • Boston Quarterly Review by W.H. Channing
  • American Biblical Respository, Anon.
  • The Victorian Age of English Literature by Margaret Oliphant
  • "Studies in Literary Psychology III. 'Carlyle and the Present Tense'" by Vernon Lee [Violet Paget]
  • "Carlyle and the French Revolution" by F.A. Lea
  • "Carlyle's Method of History in The French Revolution" by David R. Sorensen
  • Critical Responses to On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
  • Monthly Review by [Joseph H. Barrett]
  • The Dial by [Margaret Fuller]
  • The Biblical Review, and Congregational Magazine by Professor Tholuck
  • "The Hero and the Führer" by Sir Herbert Grierson
  • "Pattern and Paradox in Heroes and Hero-Worship" by Robert W. Kusch
  • "Ishmael as Prophet: Heroes and Hero-Worship and the Self-Expressive Basis of Carlyle's Art" by David J. DeLaura
  • Critical Responses to Past and Present
  • "Magazine of Domestic Economy and Family Review", Anon.
  • "The Examiner" by [John Forster]
  • "Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present", Anon.
  • "The Times", Anon.
  • "Carlyle's Past and Present: A Prophesy" by Stanley T. Williams
  • "Refractions of Past and Present" by G. Robert Stange
  • Selected Additional Readings
  • Index
LC Card Number: 96-50242
LCC Class: PR4434
Dewey Class: 824
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