Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence write by Paul E. Kerry. This book was released on 2018-06-20. Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. That Thomas Carlyle was influential in his own lifetime and continues to be so over 130 years after his death is a proposition with which few will disagree. His role as his generation’s foremost interpreter of German thought, his distinctive rhetorical style, his approach to history via the “innumerable biographies” of great men, and his almost unparalleled record of correspondence with contemporaries both great and small, makes him a necessary figure of study in multiple fields. Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence positions Carlyle as an ideal representative figure through which to study that complex interplay between past and present most commonly referred to as influence. Approached from a theoretically ecumenical perspective by the volume's introduction and eighteen essays, influence is itself refigured through a number of complementary metaphorical frames: influence as organic inheritance; influence as aesthetic infection; influence as palimpsest; influence as mythology; influence as network; and more. Individual essays connect Carlyle with the persons and publications of Mathilde Blind, Orestes Brownson, John Bunyan, G. K. Chesterton, Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, James Joyce, William Keenan, Windham Lewis, Jules Michelet, John Stuart Mill, Robert Owen, Spencer Stanhope, John Sterling, and others. Considered as a whole, Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence assembles a web of conceptual and intertextual connections that both challenges received understandings of influence itself and establishes a standard by which to measure future assertions of Carlyle's enduring intellectual legacy in the twenty-first century and beyond.
On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History
On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History write by Thomas Carlyle. This book was released on 1852. On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Carlyle Reader
Carlyle Reader - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Carlyle Reader write by Thomas Carlyle. This book was released on 1984-05-03. Carlyle Reader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Great Men
Great Men - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great Men write by Thomas Carlyle. This book was released on 1996-03. Great Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Selected Writings
Selected Writings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Selected Writings write by Thomas Carlyle. This book was released on 2015-10-01. Selected Writings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The most important writings by the great and controversial Victorian polemicist. Carlyle was one of the great figures of his age: thunderous, passionate, irascible, sceptical and idealistic. This selection is representative of all stages of Carlyle's career, and includes 'Sign of the Times', his essay against the mechanization of the age and the rise of the machines; the whole of 'Chartism'; and extracts from The French Revolution, Heroes and Hero-Worship, Sartor Resartus, Past and Present, as well as other pieces. The book also includes an introduction and notes by Alan Shelston. Thomas Carlyle was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in 1795. Intended by his family to become a Presbyterian minister, he was influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment while at the University of Edinburgh and became a teacher instead. He later turned to literary work, publishing a life of Schiller and translations of Goethe in the 1820s. His first truly successful book was The French Revolution, which was followed by many others. He died in 1881. Alan Shelston was Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester until retirement in 2002. He has edited a number of Gaskell's works including The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1975) and North and South (2005), and was joint editor with John Chapple of The Further Letters of Mrs Gaskell (2000). He has published a selection of Hardy's poetry and written on a number of nineteen century authors including Dickens and Henry James.
