The Works of Thomas Carlyle

The third volume of the Centenary Edition of Carlyle's collected works, first published in 1896.

Thomas Carlyle (Author), Henry Duff Traill (Edited by)

9781108022262, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 November 2010

326 pages, 3 b/w illus.
21.6 x 1.9 x 14 cm, 0.42 kg

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) was one of the most influential authors of the nineteenth century. Eagerly studied at the highest level of intellectual society, his satirical essays and perceptive historical biographies caused him to be regarded for much of the Victorian period as a literary genius and eminent social philosopher. After graduating from Edinburgh University in 1814, he published his first scholarly work on German literature in 1824, before finding literary success with his ground-breaking history of the French Revolution in 1837. After falling from favour during the first part of the twentieth century, his work has more recently become the subject of scholarly re-examination. His introduction of German literature and philosophy into the British intellectual milieu profoundly influenced later philosophical ideas and literary studies. These volumes are reproduced from the 1896 Centenary Edition of his collected works. Volume 3 contains the second volume of The French Revolution.

Book I. The Feast of Pikes: 1. In the Tuileries
2. In the Salle de Menege
3. The muster
4. Journalism
5. Clubbism
6. Je le jure
7. Prodigies
8. Solemn league and covenant
9. Symbolic
10. Mankind
11. As in the age of gold
12. Sound and smoke
Book II. Nanci: 1. Bouille
2. Arrears and aristocrats
3. Bouille at Metz
4. Arrears at Nanci
5. Inspector Malseigne
6. Bouille at Nanci
Book III. The Tuileries: 1. Epimenides
2. The wakeful
3. Sword in hand
4. To fly or not to fly
5. The day of poniards
6. Mirabeau
7. Death of Mirabeau
Book IV. Varennes: 1. Easter at Saint-Cloud
2. Easter at Paris
3. Count Fersen
4. Attitude
5. The new berline
6. Old-Dragon Drouet
7. The night of spurs
8. The return
9. Sharp shot
Book V. Parliament First: 1. Grande acceptation
2. The book of the law
3. Avignon
4. No sugar
5. Kings and emigrants
6. Brigands and jales
7. Constitution will not march
8. The Jacobins
9. Minister Roland
10. Petion-National-Pique
11. The hereditary representative
12. Procession of the black breeches
Book VI. The Marseillese: 1. Executive that does not act
2. Let us march
3. Some consolation to mankind
4. Subterranean
5. At dinner
6. The steeples at midnight
7. The Swiss
8. Constitution burst in pieces.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX]