Born in 1795, Thomas Carlyle was a preeminent figure in Victorian letters. Carlyle was widely reviewed, discussed, praised and criticized during his lifetime, because of his controversial ideas as well as his masterful biographies, histories and extended essays, all forms deemed more canonical in the nineteenth century. Although opinion about him and assessments of his work have fluctuated greatly in the years since his death in 1881, interest in his writings has seldom waned. This volume presents some of the most inaccessible and some of the best critical opinion dealing with four of...
Born in 1795, Thomas Carlyle was a preeminent figure in Victorian letters. Carlyle was widely reviewed, discussed, praised and criticized during hi...
Surveys the imaging and interpretation of the Victorian city and its influence on art and science, in 13 essays from the 1993 annual meeting of the Midwest Victorian Studies Association. The topics include mapping disease in London's east end, Dickens and the theater of homelessness, communities of
Surveys the imaging and interpretation of the Victorian city and its influence on art and science, in 13 essays from the 1993 annual meeting of the Mi...
