Historical essays
"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 the "undoubted head of English letters" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Historical Essays brings together for the first time Carlyle's essays on history and historical subjects in a fully annotated modern edition. Originally collected in Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, these essays span Carlyle's career from 1830 to 1875 and represent a major facet of his writings. This edition uses all the extant authoritative versions of the essays to create an accurate critical text and includes a mine of lucidly presented information to enhance readers' understanding of Carlyle's densely allusive prose."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2002
University of California Press, Berkeley [Calif.], ©2002
History
xciii, 1146 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
9780520220614, 0520220617
48265670
List of Illustrations Preface Chronology of Carlyle's Life Introduction Note on the Text Historical Essays On History On History Again Count Cagliostro: In Two Flights The Diamond Necklace Memoirs of Mirabeau Parliamentary History of the French Revolution Baillie the Covenanter An Election to the Long Parliament Two Hundred and Fifty Years Ago The Prinzenraub Early Kings of Norway Appendix: 1858 Summaries Notes Works Cited Textual Apparatus Emendations of the Copy-Text Discussion of Editorial Decisions Line-End Hyphens in the Present Text Alterations in the Manuscripts Historical Collation Index
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