Thomas Carlyle's passionate intensity placed him at the heart of Victorian radicalism. . . . His work was studied by the middle classes and by labourers aspiring, with uniquely Victorian ambition, for a better education. Among the most resourceful and determinedly intellectual of working men, Carlyle acquired a seam of followers who would not give him up. . . . He showed to readers that politics, in the broadest sense, was a matter for ardent feeling and thought; he imbued radicalism with intellectual weight and detatched it from the values of the mob; his personal fervour, frugality and commitment to improving the modern world imparted to his ideas integrity it was impossioble to fake. . . None of this, however, made him any easier to like. — Francis Gorman, "Trouble and Strife,"Times Literary Supplement (5 January 2007): 22.
Carlyle and Recent Political History
- Carlyle invents the “Condition of England Question”
- Carlyle and the Origins of the American Civil War: The Influence of Carlyle's Portrait of Cromwell upon John Brown
- The Crisis of Authority and the Critique of Political Economy
- Carlyle and the Racist Origins of the Idea that Economics was "the Dismal Science
- Carlyle's views of Napoleon
- Carlyle and the French Revolution of 1830
- Carlyle's reservations about Whig reform
- Carlyle and Dickens on the Dark Side of Freedom of the Press
- Carlyle and the defenders of manufacturing culture
- Jamaica and the Governor Eyre Controversy
- Carlyle's Response to Mill's On Liberty
- Carlyle justifies authoritarian coercion
- Victorian Political History
Carlyle as Historian
- Carlyle's Movement from the Novel to Epic History
- The French Revolution as Symbolic History
- The Narrator of The French Revolution
- Carlyle's use of present-tense narration in The French Revolution
- Carlyle and cyclical models of history
- The desire to escape history in Victorian culture — bibliographical note
Last modified 28 December 2009