Thomas Carlyle : a documentary volume / edited by Frances Frame.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frame, Elenor Frances, editor.

Series:

Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 338.

Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 338

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881--Bio-bibliography.

Carlyle, Thomas.

Authors, Scottish--19th century--Biography.

Authors, Scottish.

Genre:

Reference works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiii, 438 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Thomson Gale, 2008.

Contents:

Birth to marriage : 1795-1826. "Boundless hopes" ; Jane Welsh ; Literature and love ; Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship ; Courtship and marriage

Not without honor : 1827-1837. German romance and early essays ; The scholar at Craigenputtoch ; The travails of Teufelsdreck ; Book publication of Sartor Resartus ; London and The French Revolution ; "The miserablest accident" : rewriting The French Revolution ; The response to The French Revolution

Heroes past and present : 1838-1849. A second lecture series ; Critical and miscellaneous essays : a "Joint-stock American plan" ; Chartism : a paper "about the 'Working-class' business" ; Founding the London library ; On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history : a last lecture series ; Past and present : an "Iliad of English woes" ; Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches : "a series of fixed rock-summits" ; The squire papers controversy : "The first most flagrant dupe" ; Carlyle at the end of the 1840s

Quiet within and storm without : 1850-1865. "Occasional discourse on the Negro question" and Latter-day pamphlets ; A life of "poor" John Sterling ; A quiet place to work ; A biography of Friedrich II of Prussia ; Forward with Frederick the Great

The final years : 1866-1881. April 1866 : a rectorship and Jane's death ; After Jane ; The death of Thomas Carlyle ; Selected secondary works cited.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.