Author: Thomas Carlyle

The greatest and most enduring of the prophets of the Victorian era, Thomas Carlyle was prescient about the importance of heroism in defining a nat...

In his 1840 lectures on heroes, Thomas Carlyle, Victorian essayist and social critic, championed the importance of the individual in history. Publi...

Thomas Carlyle, renowned nineteenth-century essayist and social critic, came to be thought of as a secular prophet by many of his readers and as th...

Sartor Resartus is Thomas Carlyle's most enduring and influential work. First published in serial form in Fraser's Magazine in 1833-1834, it was di...

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian, cultural critic, and leading man of English letters during the Victorian era, published "...

This edition is the first to present the text as it originally appeared, indicating the changes Carlyle made to later editions. Appendices contain ...

The most important writings by the great and controversial Victorian polemicist.Carlyle was one of the great figures of his age: thunderous, passio...

Essays on Literature brings together ten of the most important literary reviews and essays written by the acclaimed Victorian philosopher, social c...

Essays on Politics and Society brings together the most significant writings on the topic by the acclaimed Victorian historian, social critic, and ...

Valuable for its insights into Schiller's life and for Carlyle's peculiar relationship to Schiller and German literature in general. Carlyle's bio...

'It is I think the most radical Book that has been written in these late centuries . . . and will give pleasure and displeasure, one may expect, to...

Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the aut...