The Works of Thomas Carlyle

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

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

9781108022279, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 November 2010

378 pages, 3 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.55 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 4 contains the third volume of The French Revolution.

Book I. September: 1. The improvised commune
2. Danton
3. Dumouriez
4. September in Paris
5. A trilogy
6. The circular
7. September in Argonne
8. Exeunt
Book II. Regicide: 1. The deliberative
2. The executive
3. Discrowned
4. The loser pays
5. Stretching of formulas
6. At the bar
7. The three votings
8. Place de la Revolution
Book III. The Girondins: 1. Cause and effect
2. Culottic and sansculottic
3. Growing shrill
4. Fatherland in danger
5. Sanculottism accoutred
6. The traitor
7. In fight
8. In death-grips
9. Extinct
Book IV. Terror: 1. Charlotte Corday
2. In civil war
3. Retreat of the eleven
4. O nature
5. Sword of sharpness
6. Risen against tyrants
7. Marie-Antoinette
8. The twenty-two
Book V. Terror the Order of the Day: 1. Rushing down
2. Death
3. Destruction
4. Carmagnole complete
5. Like a thunder-cloud
6. Do thy duty
7. Flame-picture
Book VI. Thermidor: 1. The gods are athirst
2. Danton, no weakness
3. The tumbrils
4. Mumbo-Jumbo
5. The prisons
6. To finish the terror
7. Go down to
Book VII. Vendemiaire: 1. Decadent
2. La Cabarus
3. Quiberon
4. Lion not dead
5. Lion sprawling its last
6. Grilled herrings
7. The whiff of grapeshot
8. Finis
Chronological summary
Index.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX]