The Works of Thomas Carlyle

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

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

9781108022521, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 November 2010

514 pages, 2 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.91 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 and literary studies. These volumes are reproduced from the 1896 Centenary Edition of his collected works. Volume 29 contains the fourth volume of a collection of critical essays.

30. Parliamentary history of the French Revolution
31. Sir Walter Scott
32. Varnhagen von Enses' Memoirs
33. Chartism
34. Petition on the Copyright Bill
35. On the sinking of the Vengeur
36. Baillie the Covenanter
37. Dr. Francia
38. An election to the Long Parliament
39. The nigger question
40. Two hundred and fifty years ago
41. The opera
42. Project of a national exhibition of Scottish portraits
43. The Prinzenraub
44. Inaugural address at Edinburgh, 2nd April 1866
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Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX]