Utopia and Thomas Carlyle's “Ancient Monk”

Rob Breton is associate professor of English studies at Nipissing University. His interests are in nineteenth-century working-class writing, especially Chartist literature, as well as in the works of Carlyle, Ruskin, and Morris. Recently, he has published in The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies and Victorian Literature and Culture and his latest book is an edition of John Ruskin's Juvenilia, titled From Seven to Seventeen: Poems by John Ruskin (Juvenilia Press, 2012).