Past and Present

List of contents

• Introduction


• Note on the Text


• Select Bibliography


• A Chronology of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle


• Context and Chronology of Chronica Jocelini de Brakelond


• PAST AND PRESENT


• Explanatory Notes


• Index

About the author

David R. Sorensen is Professor of English at Saint Joseph's University and Associate Director of its Honors Program. He is a senior editor of the Duke-Edinburgh Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (1970-ongoing), and has edited with K. J. Fielding, Carlyle's The French Revolution (Oxford University Press, 1989) and Jane Carlyle: New Selected Letters (2004), with Rodger L. Tarr, The Carlyles at Home and Abroad (2004), and with Brent E. Kinser, Carlyle's On Heroes and Hero-Worship (2013). He is co-editor of Carlyle Studies Annual and a founding director of the Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium (2011- ). He also co-edited the Oxford World's Classics edition of Carlyle's The French Revolution (2019).

Brent E. Kinser is Professor of English and Department Head at Western Carolina University. He is the author of The American Civil War and the Shaping of British Democracy (2011), and the coordinating editor of The Carlyle Letters Online (2007- ; ), the electronic edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (1970- ), for which he serves as an editor. He is co-editor (with David R. Sorensen) of Carlyle's On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (2013) He is co-editor Carlyle Studies Annual and a founding director of the Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium (2011- ). He also co-edited the Oxford World's Classics edition of Carlyle's The French Revolution (2019).

Summary

A book of social commentary informed by the history of England. It forms an analysis of the problems of newly industrialized England both by invoking historical events and by dissecting contemporary issues.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Carlyle
• Assisted by: Brent E. Kinser (Editor), Kinser Brent E. (Editor), David R. Sorensen (Editor), Sorensen David R. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.04.2023
• EAN: 9780198841081
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884108-1
• No. of pages: 512
• Series: Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, C 1700 To C 1800