Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence

Herausgeber: Dent, Megan; Pionke, Albert D.; Kerry, Paul E.

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Produktbeschreibung

Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence positions Carlyle as an ideal representative figure through which to study that complex interplay between past and present most commonly referred to as influence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 722g
• ISBN-13: 9781683930655
• ISBN-10: 1683930657
• Artikelnr.: 51152833

Autorenporträt

Megan Dent completed her Oxford DPhil, "Disraeli and Religion" in 2016. Paul Kerry is a supernumerary research and teaching fellow at the University of Oxford's Rothermere American Institute and visiting fellow in the Centre for Theology and Modern European Thought. He is an associate professor of History at Brigham Young University and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Albert D. Pionke is professor of English at the University of Alabama.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations Acknowledgements Preface Marylu Hill List of Figures
Introduction: Carlyle's Networks of Influence Albert D. Pionke Section One:
Oaks and Acorns Thomas Carlyle, Orestes Brownson, and the Laboring Classes
Chris R. Vanden Bossche Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and History:
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History and Representative Men
through the "Lens" of Photography Stephanie Hicks The Object as Symbol:
Carlyle's Symbolic Lexicon and Robert Browning's Theory of the Objective
Poet Laura Clarke Thomas Carlyle's Influence on George Meredith: Heroes and
Hero-Worship in Beauchamp's Career and Lord Ormont and His Aminta Elizabeth
J. Deis John Roddam Spencer Stanhope and the Aesthetic Male Body: A
Pre-Raphaelite Response to Ideas of Victorian Manliness Madeleine Emerald
Thiele The 'Temporary Figure (Zeitbild)' of the Author in Thomas Carlyle's
Sartor Resartus and Mathilde Blind's Tarantella: A Romance Ulrike I. Hill
Section Two: Orders of Tradition Shakespearean Negotiations: Carlyle,
Emerson, and the Ambiguities of Transatlantic Influence Tim Sommer On
Pilgrimage's Form in Modern Times: Narrative Propulsion, Bodily Spaces, and
Contested Spiritual Landscapes in Carlyle's Life of John Sterling Laura
Judd Beer Subverting Modernity in Carlyle's "Signs of the Times" and Past
and Present Ralph Jessop The Counter-Enlightenments of Thomas Carlyle B. W.
Young "Conditioning" as Influence: the Via Goethe and Case of Carlyle Paul
E. Kerry "The mysteries of predisposition": Carlyle, Disraeli, Goethe, and
Religious Influence Megan Dent Carlyle in Comparative Perspective Michael
Bentley Section Three: Reputational Networks The Mustard Seed of British
Socialism: Carlyle, Robert Owen, and "Infallible Influence" Mark Allison
Influence as Palimpsest: Carlyle, Mill, Sterling Albert D. Pionke G. K.
Chesterton and the "Shaggy Old Malcontent": Re-reading Thomas Carlyle on
the Threshold of the Twentieth Century Lowell T. Frye Finnegans Wake as
"Sartor's Risorted" or Sartor Retold: Recovering the Hidden Carlyle in
Joyce Kazuo Yokouchi Re-Fashioning Carlyle: Sartor Resartus, Dress Studies,
and the Monstrous John M. Ulrich Bibliography Index List of Contributors