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That Thomas Carlyle was influential in his own lifetime and
continues to be so over 130 years after his death is a proposition
with which few will disagree. His role as his generation's foremost
interpreter of German thought, his distinctive rhetorical style,
his approach to history via the "innumerable biographies" of great
men, and his almost unparalleled record of correspondence with
contemporaries both great and small, makes him a necessary figure
of study in multiple fields. Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of
Influence positions Carlyle as an ideal representative figure
through which to study that complex interplay between past and
present most commonly referred to as influence. Approached from a
theoretically ecumenical perspective by the volume's introduction
and eighteen essays, influence is itself refigured through a number
of complementary metaphorical frames: influence as organic
inheritance; influence as aesthetic infection; influence as
palimpsest; influence as mythology; influence as network; and more.
Individual essays connect Carlyle with the persons and publications
of Mathilde Blind, Orestes Brownson, John Bunyan, G. K. Chesterton,
Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, James Joyce, William Keenan, Windham
Lewis, Jules Michelet, John Stuart Mill, Robert Owen, Spencer
Stanhope, John Sterling, and others. Considered as a whole, Thomas
Carlyle and the Idea of Influence assembles a web of conceptual and
intertextual connections that both challenges received
understandings of influence itself and establishes a standard by
which to measure future assertions of Carlyle's enduring
intellectual legacy in the twenty-first century and beyond.
Essays on Politics and Society brings together the most significant
writings on the topic by the acclaimed Victorian historian, social
critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle. This volume includes some of
his most well-known and influential pieces, such as
"Characteristics" and "Chartism." 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 editions of each essay.
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