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Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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Literary Criticism

Ashton, Rosemary. Reviews of Thomas and Jane Carlyle: Portrait of a Marriage (Chatto and Windus) in The Guardian, 2/9/02.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Emerson's review of Carlyle's Past and Present.

Froude, James Anthony. Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881 (Scribner, 1904). At Google Books.

Kaplan, Fred. A review of Thomas Carlyle: A Biography. First page of review only. Reviewed by Frank M. Turner in The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Mar. 1986).

Sawyer, Robert. "Carlyle's influence on Shakespeare." On Thomas Carlyle's interest in and engagement with the performance of Shakespeare on the Victorian stage. Victorian Newsletter, Spring 2007.

Sorensen, David R. and Rodger L. Tarr, eds. Publisher's blurb for The Carlyles at Home and Abroad (Ashgate).

Swaim, Barton. "Our own periodical pulpit": Thomas Carlyle's sermons. Christianity and Literature, (2003).

Tarr, Rodger L. and D. J. Trela, eds. The Critical Response to Thomas Carlyle's Major Works (Greenwood Press, 1997). At Questia; Also publisher's blurb.

Uglow, Nathan. A substantial introduction to Thomas Carlyle from the Literary Encyclopedia.

"The Carlyle-Mill 'Negro Question' Debate." Historical background: the slave trade in the West Indies, the British anti-slavery movement, the sugar plantations, free trade, the trial of Governor John Eyre of Jamaica. Thomas Carlyle's philosophy. Full text of articles by Carlyle and, in disagreement, by John Stuart Mill. The Debate in America. Further Online Resources. History of Economic Thought web site. Ed. Gonzalo L. Fonseca.

Scholarly and academic resources on Thomas and Jane Carlyle, compiled by Chris Vanden Bossche, U of Notre Dame.

Editions

Reminiscences by Thomas Carlyle. Ed. James Anthony Froude. 1881. Full-text at Google.

Thomas Carlyle: a history of the first forty years of life, 1795-1835, by James Anthony Froude. 1882. American edition, two vols. 1882. Full-text at Google.

Letters and memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Ed. James Anthony Froude. 1883. American edition, two vols. 1888. Full-text at Google.

Thomas Carlyle: a history of his life in London, 1834-1881, by James Anthony Froude. 1884. New edition, 1897, rpt. Full-text at Google.

Introduction, Web Sites

"The Carlyles in Scotland and Europe," a report on a conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, 4-6 April, 2001.

The Carlyle Letters web site from Department of English, University of Edinburgh.

"Thomas and Jane Carlyle: The First Celebrity Couple?" A conversation with Rosemary Ashton, British Broadcasting Company.

The Carlyle Society web page.

Isaac Dyer Papers on Thomas Carlyle, at Bowdoin College.

Web site for the Carlyles' House, "Once the hub of Victorian literary society," 24 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London.

Catalog for the bicentenary exhibit of the Rodger L. Tarr Collection of Thomas Carlyle, at Univ. of South Carolina.

Older criticism of Thomas Carlyle's major and minor works and a biography, from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21).

The Victorian Web has good essays on Thomas Carlyle's writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian background.

A guide to research resources from the Victoria discussion list for Victorian Studies.

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