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Past and Present is a book by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle. [1] It was published in April 1843 in England and the following month in the United States. It combines medieval history with criticism of 19th-century British society. Carlyle wrote it in seven weeks as a respite from the harassing labor of writing ...
Past and Present (1843) was written as a response to the economic crisis which began in the early 1840s. This book, like its predecessor Chartism and Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), presents a further analysis of the condition-of-England question. Carlyle contrasted the medieval past and the turbulent Victorian present of the 1830s and 1840s. For ...
Signature. Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher from the Scottish Lowlands. A leading writer of the Victorian era, he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature, and philosophy. Born in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Carlyle attended the University of ...
The Works of Thomas Carlyle in Thirty Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall. Vol. I. Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books (1831) Vols. I–III. The French Revolution: A History (1837) Vol. IV. On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841) Vols. V–IX.
Carlyle's social criticism directs his penchant for metaphor toward the Condition-of-England question, depicting a thoroughly diseased society. Declaiming the aimlessness and infirmity of English leadership, Carlyle made use of satirical characters like Sir Jabesh Windbag and Bobus of Houndsditch in Past and Present.
Pamphlet. " Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question " is an essay by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle. It was first published anonymously in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country of London in December 1849, [1] and was revised and reprinted in 1853 as a pamphlet entitled " Occasional Discourse on the Nigger ...
Bust of Carlyle in the Hall of Heroes at the Wallace Monument, 1891. Thomas Carlyle's religious, historical and political thought has long been the subject of debate.In the 19th century, he was "an enigma" according to Ian Campbell in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, being "variously regarded as sage and impious, a moral leader, a moral desperado, [a] a radical, a conservative, a Christian."
Daguerreotype of Thomas Carlyle, mailed to Emerson 30 April 1846. The Carlyle–Emerson correspondence is a series of letters written between Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) from 14 May 1834 to 20 June 1873. It has been called "one of the classic documents of nineteenth-century literature."