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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Thomas Carlyle"”.
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The friendship of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1929.
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Thomas Carlyle, Fascism, and Frederick: From Victorian Prophet to Fascist Ideologue
<p>The Victorian Author Thomas Carlyle was in his day a meteoric voice but his popularity and reputation declined significantly due in part to his link to fascism. In the politically polarized era of the Second World War, academics and propagandists dubbed him a fascist or Nazi in both defamation …
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American Transcendentalism Contra Contemporary Political Philosophy: Applications of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Liberal Democratic Capitalism, Platonism, Islamism, Technology, and the "end of History"
<p>I construct Thomas Carlyle's political philosophy in the contexts of twentieth-century and contemporary political philosophy by dialoging and contrasting Carlyle with the work of John Rawls, Alasdair MacIntyre, Jacques Ellul, and Sayyid Qutb, among others. I also focus my attention on Carlyle as …
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Heroic individualism: the hero as author in democratic culture
… politics and literature: Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Carlyle and Friedrich Nietzsche. In brief, I conclude that the central aspiration of heroic individualism is to bridge the gap between writing and action, the Text and the Voice. The dialogue among Rousseau, Carlyle, and Nietzsche reveals …
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A "Living Political Dialect": The Science of Language and the Victorian Epic Impulse
… and reactionary, I show how works by Thomas Carlyle, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and the lesser-known but fascinating Darwinian poet Mathilde Blind draw on language-science to explore the redistribution of political power in the age of reform.</p>
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Sir Walter Ralegh's Legacy: His History of the World in the Seventeenth Century.
… letters and speeches of Cromwell as compiled by Thomas Carlyle and the Memoirs of Montrose, compiled and edited by Mark Napier. Obviously Ralegh's <em>History of the World</em> will also be a significant part of my research.</p><p>This study concludes that Sir Walter Ralegh's <em>History</em>had …
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Froude and Wilson on Carlyle — A Contrast
… to man in the reading of "biography"; and Thomas Carlyle, a master biographer himself, in his "Essay" on the subject, reveals "the one grand, invaluable secret" for this type of art: |To have an open, loving heart, and what follows from the possession of such. Truly it has been said, …
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Liberty, Post-Colonialism, and RuneQuest: the discourse of Imperialism in tabletop RPGs
… the British conceptions of liberty provided by Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill, the ways in which the Lunar Empire and the Kingdom of Sartar undermine their own conceptions of liberty become clear. In combination with the indeterminate telos of the Hero Wars, and the deconstructive …
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Intellectual formations in the Romantic period: a comparative study of cultural politics and social criticism in the British public sphere, 1802-32
… such as Francis Jeffrey, Henry Brougham and Thomas Carlyle, and their English radical plebeian counterparts, William Cobbett, T.J. Wooler and Thomas Spence, the thesis examines the bases of two divergent strategies of cultural resistance to the social crises of industrialism. By highlighting …
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A diversidade intertextual d' A Correspondência de Fradique Mendes : dandismo e jogo(s) de apresentação/simulação
… em textos de Hippolyte Taine (Notes sur Paris) e Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus). Na verdade, quando a obra é publicada, Fradique surge inserido num mistificador jogo textual, muito semelhante ao que Taine e Carlyle utilizaram para apresentar Graindorge e Teufelsdröckh, respetivamente. A produção …
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Rewriting the "Great Man" Theory: Historiographic Critique in Spanish American Literature
… man” theory of history. The Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle popularized this theory in the 1800s, and it asserts that biography is the proper model for history, namely, the biography of prominent individuals – “great men.” It treats these people as the source of history. Opposing this …
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The life and work of Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm
… Chapter 6 examines Boehm's friendship with Thomas Carlyle and his portrait statue of the latter, commonly regarded as being his greatest work. Chapter 7 examines Boehm's effigies for the Jubilee coinage and medals of 1887 and explains the artistic failure of the coinage. Chapter 8 examines …
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Bureaucracy and its Liberal Imaginings: Victorian Aesthetics of the State
… Aesthetics of the State endeavors, much like Thomas Carlyle, to understand the crisis of the present through an analysis of the past, but more specifically through fictions of the Victorian past. For it is only there, in the amalgam of stories fixated on the issue of reform and empire as found …
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Victorian criticism of the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott, 1832 to 1900
… on Scott by, respectively, Harriet Martineau, Thomas Carlyle, Walter Bagehot, John Ruskin, Leslie Stephen, Richard Hutton and Julia Wedgwood. The thesis concludes with an epilogic section covering critics of the late nineteenth century, including Frederic Harrison and Andrew Lang. In each …
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Historicizing performativity: Constructing identities in Victorian England
… many authors, including Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Thomas Carlyle, Wilkie Collins, Dinah Mulock Craik, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, and Mrs. Henry Wood.
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Early Darwinian Commemoration in Britain, 1882-1914
… sudden decline in the posthumous reputation of Thomas Carlyle, which reflected changing attitudes to long-established ‘heroic’ tradition. As such, the production, reception and mobilisation of Darwinian biography (primarily his Life and Letters and its subsequent editions and sequels) recognised …
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