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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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'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.
In his 1840 lectures on heroes, Thomas Carlyle, Victorian essayist
and social critic, championed the importance of the individual in
history. Published the following year and eventually translated
into fifteen languages, this imaginative work of history,
comparative religion, and literature is the most influential
statement of a man who came to be thought of as a secular prophet
and the 'undoubted head of English letters' (Emerson). His vivid
portraits of Muhammad, Dante, Luther, Napoleon - just a few of the
individuals Carlyle celebrated for changing the course of world
history - made "On Heroes" a challenge to the anonymous social
forces threatening to control life during the Industrial
Revolution. In eight volumes, "The Strouse Edition" will provide
the texts of Carlyle's major works edited for the first time to
contemporary scholarly standards. For the general reader, its
detailed introductions and annotations will offer insight into the
author's thought and a reconstruction of the diverse and often
arcane Carlylean sources.
"Sartor Resartus" is Thomas Carlyle's most enduring and influential
work. First published in serial form in "Fraser's Magazine" in
1833-1834, it was discovered by the American Transcendentalists.
Sponsored by Ralph Waldo Emerson, it was first printed as a book in
Boston in 1836 and immediately became the inspiration for the
Transcendental movement. The first London trade edition was
published in 1838. By the 1840s, largely on the strength of "Sartor
Resartus," Carlyle became one of the leading literary figures in
Britain.
"Sartor Resartus" became one of the important texts of
nineteenth-century English literature, central to the Romantic
movement and Victorian culture. At the time of Carlyle's death in
1881, more than 69,000 copies had been sold. The post-Victorian
influence continued and extends to writers as diverse as Virginia
Woolf and James Joyce, Willa Cather and Ernest Hemingway.
This edition of "Sartor Resartus" is the first publication of the
work that uses all extant versions to create an accurate authorial
text. This volume, the second in an eight-volume series, includes a
complete textual apparatus as well as a historical introduction and
full critical and explanatory annotation.
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