Thomas Carlyle (Writers and Their Work)

Gascoyne, David

Liverpool University Press（1979/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 36 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780582010239

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Thomas Carlyle was a nineteenth-century Scottish essayist,
philosopher, and historian. Famous for his distinctively energetic style of
prose, he was considered by Ralph Waldo Emerson to be the 'undoubted head of
English letters'. His collected works run to thirty volumes, including the
influential history The French Revolution (1837). Following his
appropriation by Nazi ideologues, Carlyle's popularity waned in the early twentieth
century, but David Gascoyne's 1952 text anticipates a revival of Carlyle
studies, presenting him as both a prophet and social commentator who cannot be
claimed by either the Left or the Right. In this work, Gascoyne aims to
position Carlyle alongside the most important writers of the nineteenth century,
while simultaneously exploring Carlyle's 'message of special value' to contemporary
readers.