Books > Biography > Literary
|
Buy Now
Thomas Carlyle (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Loot Price: R573
Discovery Miles 5 730
|
|
Thomas Carlyle (Paperback, 2nd edition)
(sign in to rate)
Loot Price R573
Discovery Miles 5 730
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
Ian Campbell, who has had access to a very large number of the
relevant papers, has divided Carlyle's life into two definite
parts-the Scottish years and the Chelsea years-and by mixing
biography and literary criticism, has produced a full portrait of
the man and his works. He traces Carlyle's development from the
early years in Ecclefechan and then Edinburgh during its golden age
of artistic and literary achievement, through his marriage to Jane
and the writing of Sartor Resartus, to the year 1834 when they
settled in London. The Chelsea years saw the emergence of Carlyle's
massive works on the French Revolution, Cromwell and Frederick the
Great, the publication of each involving a crisis in the Carlyles'
strange domestic life. 1866 marked a high point, when he returned
to Scotland in triumph as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University.
Everything subsequent was tragic: Jane's death, the drying-up of
the historical muse, the withdrawal from public life. Yet, this was
the period of private friendships with the most meteoric literary
figures in an amazing age. Thomas Carlyle died in 1881, at the age
of eighty-six, renowned as a historian and known throughout the
intellectual world as 'the Sage of Chelsea'. Ian Campbell was born
in Lausanne and educated there and in Scottish schools, Aberdeen
and Edinburgh Universities. He retired in 2009 as Professor of
Scottish and Victorian Literature at Edinburgh where he had spent
his teaching life, with spells in Canada, USA, Japan and Europe. As
one of the senior editors of the Duke-Edinburgh edition of the
Carlyle Letters he has written much on both Carlyles, on Scottish
literature of every genre since Burns, and on Victorian literature
generally. He is President of the Carlyle Society, and remains an
Emeritus Professor at Edinburgh. "Thomas Carlyle" is a revised and
updated edition of the biography originally published in London in
1974 by Hamish Hamilton, and republished in 1993 by the Saltire
Society in Edinburgh.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.