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When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, a central question
for British intellectuals was whether or not the American conflict
was proof of the viability of democracy as a foundation for modern
governance. The lessons of the American Civil War for Britain would
remain a focal point in the debate on democracy throughout the war
up to the suffrage reform of 1867, and after. Brent E. Kinser
considers four figures connected by Woodrow Wilson's concept of the
"Literary Politician," a person who, while possessing a profound
knowledge of politics combined with an equally acute literary
ability to express that knowledge, escapes the practical drudgeries
of policy making. Kinser argues that the animosity of Thomas
Carlyle towards democracy, the rhetorical strategy of Anthony
Trollope's North America, the centrality of the American war in
Walter Bagehot's vision of British governance, and the political
philosophy of John Stuart Mill illustrate the American conflict's
vital presence in the debates leading up to the 1867 reform, a
legislative event that helped to secure democracy's place in the
British political system.
When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, a central question
for British intellectuals was whether or not the American conflict
was proof of the viability of democracy as a foundation for modern
governance. The lessons of the American Civil War for Britain would
remain a focal point in the debate on democracy throughout the war
up to the suffrage reform of 1867, and after. Brent E. Kinser
considers four figures connected by Woodrow Wilson's concept of the
"Literary Politician," a person who, while possessing a profound
knowledge of politics combined with an equally acute literary
ability to express that knowledge, escapes the practical drudgeries
of policy making. Kinser argues that the animosity of Thomas
Carlyle towards democracy, the rhetorical strategy of Anthony
Trollope's North America, the centrality of the American war in
Walter Bagehot's vision of British governance, and the political
philosophy of John Stuart Mill illustrate the American conflict's
vital presence in the debates leading up to the 1867 reform, a
legislative event that helped to secure democracy's place in the
British political system.
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Past and Present (Paperback)
Thomas Carlyle; Edited by David R. Sorensen, Brent E. Kinser
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Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of
impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in
what the author described as a 'miraculous thunder-voice, from out
of the centre of the world.' The impact of Carlyle's social
criticism was immediate and profound, shaping debate about the 'The
Condition of England' question well into the twentieth century and
beyond, and serving as the moral foundation of the welfare state.
His relentlessly abrasive and illuminating critique of industrial
civilization generated a vast range of response both in England,
Europe, and the United States. The writings of Matthew Arnold, John
Stuart Mill, William Morris, John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin, as
well as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Walt Whitman,
were saturated with imagery and ideas directly indebted to the
book. Past and Present also provided novelists and poets with an
enduring vision of the ubiquitous rot that lay at the heart of
'laissez-faire' England. The repercussions of Carlyle's unique
analysis can be witnessed in the literary form and thematic content
of such works as Charles Dickens's Christmas Carol (1843), Dombey
and Son (1848), Bleak House (1852-53), and Hard Times (1854);
Benjamin Disraeli's Sybil (1845); Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton
(1848) and North and South (1855); and Charles Kingsley's Alton
Locke (1850). Poets such as Alfred Tennyson in Maud (1855),
Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Aurora Leigh (1856), and Arthur Hugh
Clough in The Latest Decalogue (1862) built a vocabulary that was
steeped in the outrage and indignation of Carlyle's polemic. The
artist Ford Madox Brown attempted in his painting Work (1852-65) to
give visual testimony to the profound social schisms that Carlyle
had exposed in Past and Present and to pay tribute to the 'Sage'
who had 'moulded a nation to his pattern.'
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The French Revolution (Paperback)
Thomas Carlyle; Edited by David R. Sorensen, Brent E. Kinser; Edited by (consulting) Mark Engel
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R584
R505
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'It is I think the most radical Book that has been written in these
late centuries . . . and will give pleasure and displeasure, one
may expect, to almost all classes of persons.' Carlyle Thomas
Carlyle's history of the French Revolution opens with the death of
Louis XV in 1774 and ends with Napoleon suppressing the
insurrection of the 13th Vendemaire. Both in Its form and content,
the work was intended as a revolt against history writing itself,
with Carlyle exploding the eighteenth-century conventions of
dignified gentlemanly discourse. Immersing himself in his French
sources with unprecedented imaginative and intellectual engagement,
he recreates the upheaval in a language that evokes the chaotic
atmosphere of the events. In the French Revolution Carlyle achieves
the most vivid historical reconstruction of the crisis of his, or
any other, age. This new edition offers an authoritative text, a
comprehensive record of Carlyle's French, English, and German
sources, a select bibliography of editions, related writings, and
critical studies, chronologies of both Thomas Carlyle and the
French Revolution, and a new and full index. In addition, Carlyle's
work is placed in the context of both British and European history
and writing, and linked to a variety of major figures, including
Edward Gibbon, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill,
Hegel, and R. G. Collingwood.
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Essays on Literature (Hardcover)
Thomas Carlyle, Fleming McClelland, Brent E. Kinser, Chris Ramon Vanden Bossche
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R2,991
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Essays on Literature brings together ten of the most important
literary reviews and essays written by the acclaimed Victorian
philosopher, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle. Spanning
his writing career, the essays allow the reader to track Carlyle's
development as a reviewer and stylist, the evolution of his
perennial themes, and the tremendous impact of his writing on the
development of British and American literature. In keeping with the
Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas
Carlyle, these essays are accompanied by a thorough historical
introduction to the material, extensive notes providing historical
and cultural context while expanding on references and allusions,
and a textual apparatus that carefully details and explains the
editorial decisions made in reconciling the many editions of each
essay.
Based on a series of lectures delivered in 1840, Thomas Carlyle's
On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History considers how
heroes are created and conveys his ideas on the importance of
heroic leadership. Carlyle explored a wide range of heroes: from
the political (Napoleon), to the literary (Shakespeare, Dante,
Burns), to the religious (Martin Luther, the prophet Muhammad).
While hugely influential in the nineteenth century, Carlyle's ideas
were erroneously identified with totalitarianism in Nazi Germany
and the Soviet Union in the twentieth. By situating the text in the
context of six reevaluative essays, David Sorenson and Brett Kinser
argue that Carlyle's concept of heroism actually repudiates its own
authoritarian roots and stresses the hero's spiritual dimension. In
Carlyle's engagement with various heroic personalities, he
dislodges religiosity from religion and looks at how these figures
were able to unlock the heroic potential of ordinary human beings.
Exploring the rich, enduring companionship shared by Marjorie
Kinnan Rawlings and Julia Scribner Bigham through
never-before-published letters, Marge and Julia provides a
revelatory depiction of these two literary women's experiences in
mid-twentieth-century America. Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Rawlings was first introduced to Julia Scribner (later Bigham),
daughter of publishing magnate Charles Scribner III, shortly after
the legendary House of Scribner published The Yearling to runaway
success. Though Julia's New York City life was far removed from the
rural world of Cross Creek, the two women remained close until
Rawlings's death in 1953, after which Scribner Bigham served as
Rawlings's literary executor. In this documentary edition of 211 of
their letters, Rawlings's and Bigham's perspectives on the world
are woven through over a decade of intimate discussion and advice
about relationships, motherhood, mental health, politics, art, and
literature. Supplementing the letters with an introduction,
explanatory footnotes, and a reminiscence by Scribner Bigham's
eldest daughter, Hildreth Scribner Bigham, MD, this edition
provides historical context and prompts readers to inspect the
facets of both women's complex relationship with issues such as
racial discrimination, class, and gender inequality. These letters
offer an unprecedented performance of two women's intimate
friendship, one that transcended the limitations of patriarchy as
they wrote their lives in letters.
The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle offer a
window onto the lives of two of the Victorian world's most
accomplished, perceptive, and unusual inhabitants. Scottish writer
and historian Thomas Carlyle and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle,
attracted to them a circle of foreign exiles, radicals, feminists,
revolutionaries, and major and minor writers from across Europe and
the United States. The collection is regarded as one of the finest
and most comprehensive literary archives of the nineteenth century.
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