The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: January–December 1851 - Hardcover

9780822321040: The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: January–December 1851

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ISBN 10: 0822321041 ISBN 13: 9780822321040

Publisher: Duke University Press, 1998

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The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle offer a window onto the lives of two of the Victorian world’s most accomplished, perceptive, and unusual inhabitants. Scottish writer and historian Thomas Carlyle and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle, attracted to them a circle of foreign exiles, radicals, feminists, revolutionaries, and major and minor writers from across Europe and the United States. The collection is regarded as one of the finest and most comprehensive literary archives of the nineteenth century.

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"I have no doubt at all that this mammoth editorial task is very well worth doing, and it is being done extremely well. The Carlyles were extraordinary human beings and, as it happens, extraordinarily good letter-writers. Their letters give a uniquely valuable view not only of their life together, but also of the wider lives of all those, high and low, whom they attracted, repelled and--in the pages of their letters--impaled."--Rosemary Ashton, "London Review of Books"

About the Author

Michael K. Goldberg is Professor of English, University of British Columbia. He has written widely on the 19th century including "Carlyle and Dickens" (Georgia, 1972). Joel J. Brattin is Assistant Professor in the Humanities at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Mark Engel is a student of philosophy, a professional editor, and an independent scholar.

Aileen Christianson is senior lecturer in the Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh.

Alison Lumsden is a research fellow in the Department of English Literature, University of Aberdeen.

Fielding is George Saintsbury Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.

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