The Works of Thomas Carlyle

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

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

9781108022378, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 November 2010

430 pages, 2 b/w illus. 2 maps
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.63 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 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. These volumes are reproduced from the 1896 Centenary Edition of his collected works. Volume 14 contains the third volume of The Life of Frederick the Great.

Book IX. Last Stage of Friedrich's Apprenticeship: Life in Ruppin, 1732–1736: 1. Princess Elizabeth Christina of Brunswick-Bevern
2. Small incidents at Ruppin
3. The Salzburgers
4. Prussian Majesty visits the Kaiser
5. Ghost of the double-marriage rises
to no purpose
6. King August meditating great things for Poland
7. Crown-Prince's marriage
8. King August dies
and Poland takes fire
9. Kaiser's shadow-hunt has caught fire
10. Crown-Prince goes to the Rhine campaign
11. In Papa's sick-room
Prussian inspections
end of war
Book X. At Reinsberg, 1736–1740: 1. Mansion of Reinsberg
2. Of Voltaire and the literary correspondences
3. Crown-Prince makes a morning call
4. News of the day
5. Visit at Loo
6. Last year of Reinsberg
journey to Preussen
7. Last year of Reinsberg: transit of Baltimore and other persons and things
8. Death of Friedrich Wilhelm
Book XI. Friedrich Takes the Reins in Hand, 1740: 1. Phenomena of Friedrich's accession
2. The homagings
3. Friedrich makes an excursion, not of direct sort, into the Cleve Countries
4. Voltaire's first interview with Friedrich
5. Affair of Herstal
6. Returns by Hanover
does not call on his royal uncle there
7. Withdraws to Reinsberg, hoping a peaceable winter
8. The Kaiser's death
9. Resolution formed at Reinsberg in consequence.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX]