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Thomas Carlyle: Still Rather Kooky

Thomas Carlyle: Still Rather Kooky. By Lisa Gilbert. Prior to this Project. Victorian Literature Sartor Resartus , Past and Present British Literature Past and Present …. Again Basically? Carlyle deserved his own Fire Chariot of Pain. Mr. Chariot Him… Erm , I mean, Carlyle.

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Thomas Carlyle: Still Rather Kooky

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  1. Thomas Carlyle: Still Rather Kooky By Lisa Gilbert

  2. Prior to this Project • Victorian Literature • Sartor Resartus, Past and Present • British Literature • Past and Present…. Again • Basically? • Carlyle deserved his own Fire Chariot of Pain

  3. Mr. Chariot Him… Erm, I mean, Carlyle. • Born December 4th, 1795 • School • Varied interests • Ministry, mathematics, law, literature, language • Gastric complaint • Tormented all his life • Wife • Married Jane on October 17, 1826

  4. Carlyle’s Career • Failure plagues career • Attempts: a novel, two university chairmanships, journal editorship, journalism • Wrote extensive history on French Revolution • Sartor Resartus published in 1833 • Damned by the press (they were smart) • Disclaimer: Despite my feelings towards this work, it was also praised for its mastery of the English language

  5. Carlyle’s Career • Success at long last! • French Revolution history rewritten • Established Carlyle • Continued to write essays • Strayed from being democratic • Fearless leaders, ruthlessness and Carlyle taking over the world • Final monumental publication • Six volume history on Friedrich II of Prussia

  6. End of Life • Jane died of heart disease • Carlyle entered depression • Died on February 4th, 1881

  7. The Writer and the Diplomat… One in the Same • Born June 8th, 1820 • Long line of Congressmen • Father, wife’s brother, uncle • Education • University of Virginia • Experiences • Confederate Army • The Union’s Wanted List • Died July 4th, 1890

  8. A Man of Words • Journalist for numerous papers and journals • Southern Literary Messenger and Edinburgh Review • Two novels • George Balcombe and The Partisan Leader • Convey fears of goverment

  9. The Letter • From Carlyle to Tucker • Discusses America’s slavery issue and Carlyle’s stance • Very academic in feel • Other Carlyle letters included something personal • Always mentions books or writing received and sent • Supports Carlyle’s arguments in own writing

  10. “Meanwhile, dark as we are in regard to all details, I think you rather exaggerate to yourself our ignorance as to your essential position in that big controversy.”

  11. “Perhaps now at last the dumb sense of the Country does begin to stir, and growl a kind of inarticulate contradiction to the Platforms; but I foresee it will be a long time, such is the complicated depth of this Emancipation Question, and such the general numb bewilderment of men's minds, before the wise result be insisted on with emphasis, and get the majority in its favour.”

  12. “But, alas, the question is deep as the foundations of society; and will not be settled this long while! For the cry about Emancipation, so well pleased with itself on Humanity Platforms, is but the key-note of that huge anarchic roar now rising from all nations, for good reasons too,—which tends to abolish all mastership and obedience whatsoever in this world, and to render Society impossible among the Sons of Adam!”

  13. “My notion is that the relation of the White man to the Black is not at present a just one according to the Law of the Eternal; and tho' ‘Abolition’ is by no means the way to remedy it, and would be a ‘remedy’ equivalent to killing it (as I believe), yet, beyond all question, remedied it must be; and peace upon it is not possible till a remedy be found, and begin to be visibly applied.”

  14. Works Cited • Carlyle, Thomas. "TC TO N. BEVERLY TUCKER." Letter to Nathaniel Beverly Tucker. 21 Oct. 1850. MS. The Carlyle Letters Online, Duke University, North Carolina. • Harper. "THE PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATON IN SECESSIA." Harper's Weekly [New York City] 18 Oct. 1862: 1. Print. • Kunitz, Stanley, and Howard Haycraft. British Authors of the Nineteenth Century. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1936. Print. • "Thomas Carlyle: Biography." The Victorian Web: An Overview. The Victorian Web, 1988. Web. 20 Oct. 2011. • Tucker, Beverley D., and Percy Winfield. Turrentine.Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, Prophet of theConfederacy, 1784-1851. Tokyo: Nanʼundō, 1979. Print. • Wrobel, Arthur. “’Romantic Realism”: Nathaniel Beverley Tucker." American Literature 42.3 (1970): 325-35. Print.

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