ENG 346: 19th-Century Literature: Victorian

Desaulniers argues that Carlyle returns language to material wholeness by insisting on situating sign within representation so that the materiality of the sign is not surrendered to the idea imposed on it. By focusing on reading as an act of Constitution within The French Revolution, she places the political crisis within a linguistic one: the Constitution becomes both a thematic and self-reflexive constituent of the linguistic process.

Perhaps no biographer has ever had so much manuscript material by and about his subject as did James Anthony Froude when he undertook to write the life of Thomas Carlyle. The four-volume work that resulted from his labors attests that he drew heavily on the mass of letters, journals, and reminiscences that Carlyle left him. This abridgment reduces by more than one-half the nearly two thousand pages of the original through judicious pruning of the lengthy quotations from Carlyle and others.

Includes relevant chapter: "The Fictive World of Thomas Carlyle"

Includes relevant chapter: "Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (1833-1834)"

Includes relevant chapter: "World History as Heroic Biography: Thomas Carlyle's 'Great Men'"

Includes relevant chapter: "Thomas Carlyle and the Imitatio Goethe"