The Works of Thomas Carlyle
The Works of Thomas Carlyle
Henry Duff Traill
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GBPThomas Carlyle (1795–1881) was one of the most influential authors of the nineteenth century. Eagerly studied at the highest level of intellectual society, his satirical essays and perceptive historical biographies caused him to be regarded for much of the Victorian period as a literary genius and eminent social philosopher. After graduating from Edinburgh University in 1814, he published his first scholarly work on German literature in 1824, before finding literary success with his ground-breaking history of the French Revolution in 1837. After falling from favour during the first part of the twentieth century, his work has more recently become the subject of scholarly re-examination. His introduction of German literature and philosophy into the British intellectual milieu profoundly influenced later philosophical ideas and literary studies. These volumes are reproduced from the 1896 Centenary Edition of his collected works. Volume 10 contains his social commentary Past and Present.
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November 2010Paperback
9781108022330
334 pages
229 × 152 × 19 mm
0.49kg
1 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Book I. Proem:
- 1. Midas
- 2. The Sphinx
- 3. Manchester insurrection
- 4. Morrison's pill
- 5. Aristocracy of talent
- 6. Hero-worship
- Book II. The Ancient Monk:
- 1. Jocelin of Brakelond
- 2. St. Edmundsbury
- 3. Landlord Edmund
- 4. Abbot Hugo
- 5. Twelfth century
- 6. Monk Samson
- 7. The canvassing
- 8. The election
- 9. Abbot Samson
- 10. Government
- 11. The abbot's ways
- 12. The abbot's troubles
- 13. In parliament
- 14. Henry of Essex
- 15. Practical-devotional
- 16. St. Edmund
- 17. The beginnings
- Book III. The Modern Worker:
- 1. Phenomena
- 2. Gospel of mammonism
- 3. Gospel of dilettantism
- 4. Happy
- 5. The English
- 6. Two centuries
- 7. Over-production
- 8. Unworking aristocracy
- 9. Working aristocracy
- 10. Plugson of Undershot
- 11. Labour
- 12. Reward
- 13. Democracy
- 14. Sir Jabesh Windbag
- 15. Morrison again
- Book IV. Horoscope:
- 1. Aristocracies
- 2. Bribery committee
- 3. The one institution
- 4. Captains of industry
- 5. Permanence
- 6. The landed
- 7. The gifted
- 8. The didactic
- Summary
- Index.
