The Works of Thomas Carlyle

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

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

9781108022408, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 November 2010

460 pages, 2 b/w illus. 10 maps
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.67 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 and literary studies. These volumes are reproduced from the 1896 Centenary Edition of his collected works. Volume 17 contains the sixth volume of The Life of Frederick the Great.

Book XVII. The Seven-Years War: First Campaign. 1756–1757: 1. What Friedrich had read in the Menzel documents
2. English diplomacies abroad, in prospect of a French war
3. French-English war breaks out
4. Friedrich puts a question at Vienna, twice over
5. Friedrich blockades the Saxons in Pirna country
6. Battle of Lobositz
7. The Saxons get out of Pirna on dismal terms
8. Winter in Dresden
Book XVIII. Sevens-Years War Rises to a Height. 1757–1759: 1. The campaign opens
2. Battle of Prag
3. Prag cannot be got at once
4. Battle of Kolin
5. Friedrich at Leitmeritz, his world of enemies coming on
6. Death of Winterfeld
7. Friedrich in Thuringen, his world of enemies all come
8. Battle of Rossbach
9. Friedrich marches for Silesia
10. Battle of Leuthen
11. Winter in Breslau: third campaign opens
12. Siege of Olmutz
13. Battle of Zorndorf
14. Battle of Hochkirch.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX]