...: This is not a Religious age.1 o adm it and study the utopian program or its near-realization inThom as Carlyle's TPast and Present, section II, "The Ancient Monk," is not to claim that Carlyle was a utopianist or that he was especially attracted to the idea of utopia. Judging only by the way he undermines ideals...

... as well. Let me begin, then, w ith Carlyle, an exam ple o f just this oxym oronic triangulation. Carlyle had gone to the University of Edinburgh w ith the intention of studying for the Christian m inistry. After a spiritual crisis o f several years, he gave up on the idea. As he tells us in Sartor...

..., criticizes Feuerbach for treating the "hum an essence" as an abstraction situated in the individual, arguing Instead that It is the ensemble o f social relationships w ithin a given culture. Carlyle shares the romantic view that myth can restore unity to modern culture, and he affirms our ability to attain...

..., a threat to the entire cosmos. M oving next to the Victorian period, Rob Breton's essay "U topia and Thomas Carlyle's 'Ancient M on k'" reappropriates the notion o f totality to proffer a reading o f Carlyle as a rad- Laura Winkiel 7 ¡cal conservatist, attuned to totalizing notions o f reform ing...

..., and lulls the harm onious ear. (188-203) According to Alexander Carlyle, another friend of Collins, who first communicated the ode to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, lines 192-5 originally read: How have I trem bled, w hen, at T ancred s side, Like him I stalk d, and all his passions felt; W hen charm d...

... to explain that desire cannot be final­ ly satisfied Carlyle s brief com m ent on the infinite shoeblack in Sartor Resartus does the jo b a good deal m ore directiy. The author s third heuristic is an analysis of how some of Conrad s characters experience regimes of disciplinarity and con­ trol...

... interest is m ostly in nineteenth-century w orking-class w ritin g and culture. His book, Gospels a nd Grit: Work and Labour in Carlyle, Conrad, a nd Orwell, is published by the U nive rsity o f Toronto Press. S teven B ruhm is Robert and Ruth Lum sden Professor o f English at the U n ive rsity o f W...

...-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 o f PreRaphaelite Studies and Victorian Literature and Culture and his latest book is an edition of John Ruskin's Juvenilia, titled From Seven...

... f Adam Bede, M arian w aited with h e r life-partner G eorge Lewes betw een the an n ouncem ents of his wife A gnes pregnancies an d the births o f those dirty sooty skinned children which have T h [o rn to ]n H u n t for a father, as T ho­ mas Carlyle described them (quoted in G ordon S. H aight...

... a deathbed conversion away from Byronism and towards Carlyle,Tennyson, and Christ, leaving his childish romanticism fo r w hat the novel portrays as adult Victorianism. Between lines o f In M em oriam , Roland begs Isabel's forgiveness and asks her to "rem em ­ ber my wasted life" if ever "you should find...

... Carlyle, an acknowledged influence, fierce critic of Benthamite philosophy, and the originator of the phrase "condition-of-Englandr." Gaskell's epigraph to the novel is a quotation from Carlyle; Dickens dedicates the novel outright to him. 10 Quoted in Deborah A. Thomas, Hard Times: A Fable o f...

... nineteenthcentury philosopher), one each for Thackeray, Scott, Dickens, Austen, Mill; one fo r Burns, one for Carlyle; tw o for historianThom as Macaulay, and fina lly one for Ethel Newcombe, a m inor star for Gilbert and Sullivan at the Doyly Carte Opera House in London during the 1896 season, when she undoubtedly...

... that an early episode ofJonathan H arker s Journal is a detailed adaptation of an initiatory scene in Der goldne Topf (1814), most likely from Thomas Carlyle s 1827 translation.2 At the point in which the two scenes agree in detail they diverge sharply in function. Crudely stated, Hoffm ann s art tends...

... of the backgrounds of Stoker s novel. While there is no reason to suppose that Stoker read Hoffmann in the original, internal evi­ dence shows that an early episode ofJonathan H arker s Journal is a detailed adaptation of an initiatory scene in Der goldne Topf (1814), most likely from Thomas Carlyle s 1827...

... to the historical, political, cultural, or economic pressures that entangle other Victorian w rit­ ers from Carlyle to Hardy.This is not to say that arguments for Hopkins's Victorianness do not exist; they do, and in increasing number. But they exist only against a curiously persist­ ent strain of criticism which...

... a picture ofThomas Carlyle on her bedroom wall). Yet Dickinson's work consistently draws on eighteenth-century empiricisms and their classical precedents. "A Word made Flesh," for instance, offers a nearly Humean logic that converts reli­ gious faith into the philological practice through which figure...

... in Harkness's novels is the hom e and hom elessness. H ousing in London's East End was in 1888 as h o rrific as it had been in the g hettoes o f Britain d uring the 1840s and '50s, w hen Carlyle was w ritin g o f a hom eless Irish w id o w infecting greater Edinburgh and Dickens was w ritin g ofTom 's-AII-Alone...