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"Carlyle's essays 'on politics and society' are some of his most significant and widely read, especially 'Characteristics' and 'Chartism.' The supporting material surrounding the actual essays is extremely well done and constitutes a great deal of original and insightful content. Maintaining continuity with the early editions, the latest volume will prove to be one of the most popular not only for the specific essays but also for the elaborate apparatus the editors use to elucidate and situate those specific essays."—Rob Breton, Professor of English, Nipissing University, and author of The Oppositional Aesthetics of Chartist Fiction: Reading against the Middle-Class Novel
"This material is exhaustive and will be of inestimable use to future scholars of Carlyle, the vagaries of textual history, and nineteenth-century British publishing practices. This is meticulous and laborious work that was always likely to be done only once, and so I, at least, am pleased that it was completed here with such unflagging attention."—Albert Pionke, William and Margaret Going Endowed Professor of English, University of Alabama, and author of Teaching Later British Literature: A Thematic Approach
List of contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Chronology of Carlyle’s Life
Introduction
Note on the Text
Illustrations
Essays on Politics and Society
Signs of the Times.
Characteristics.
Death of Edward Irving.
Petition on the Copyright Bill.
Chartism.
Dr. Francia.
Louis Philippe.
Repeal of the Union.
Ireland and the British Chief Governor.
Irish Regiments (of the New Æra).
Legislation for Ireland.
Death of Charles Buller.
Ireland and Sir Robert Peel.
Indian Meal.
Trees of Liberty.
The Opera.
Project of a National Exhibition of Scottish Portraits.
Ilias (Americana) in Nuce.
Inaugural Address
Shooting Niagara: And After?
Latter Stage of the French-German War, 1870-71.
The Portraits of John Knox
Notes
Works Cited
Textual Apparatus
Emendations of the Copy-Text
Discussion of Editorial Decisions
Line-End Hyphens in the Copy-Text
Line-End Hyphens in the Present Text
Historical Collation
Alterations in the Manuscript
Index
