Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence


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Edited by Paul E. Kerry, Albert D. Pionke, Megan Dent, Contributions by Mark Allison, Laura Beer, Michael Bentley, Laura H. Clarke, Elizabeth J. Deis, Megan Dent, Lowell T. Frye
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Abbreviations Acknowledgements Preface Marylu Hill List of Figures Introduction: Carlyle's Networks of Influence Albert D. Pionke Section One: Oaks and Acorns Thomas Carlyle, Orestes Brownson, and the Laboring Classes Chris R. Vanden Bossche Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and History: On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History and Representative Men through the "Lens" of Photography Stephanie Hicks The Object as Symbol: Carlyle's Symbolic Lexicon and Robert Browning's Theory of the Objective Poet Laura Clarke Thomas Carlyle's Influence on George Meredith: Heroes and Hero-Worship in Beauchamp's Career and Lord Ormont and His Aminta Elizabeth J. Deis John Roddam Spencer Stanhope and the Aesthetic Male Body: A Pre-Raphaelite Response to Ideas of Victorian Manliness Madeleine Emerald Thiele The 'Temporary Figure (Zeitbild)' of the Author in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Mathilde Blind's Tarantella: A Romance Ulrike I. Hill Section Two: Orders of Tradition Shakespearean Negotiations: Carlyle, Emerson, and the Ambiguities of Transatlantic Influence Tim Sommer On Pilgrimage's Form in Modern Times: Narrative Propulsion, Bodily Spaces, and Contested Spiritual Landscapes in Carlyle's Life of John Sterling Laura Judd Beer Subverting Modernity in Carlyle's "Signs of the Times" and Past and Present Ralph Jessop The Counter-Enlightenments of Thomas Carlyle B. W. Young "Conditioning" as Influence: the Via Goethe and Case of Carlyle Paul E. Kerry "The mysteries of predisposition": Carlyle, Disraeli, Goethe, and Religious Influence Megan Dent Carlyle in Comparative Perspective Michael Bentley Section Three: Reputational Networks The Mustard Seed of British Socialism: Carlyle, Robert Owen, and "Infallible Influence" Mark Allison Influence as Palimpsest: Carlyle, Mill, Sterling Albert D. Pionke G. K. Chesterton and the "Shaggy Old Malcontent": Re-reading Thomas Carlyle on the Threshold of the Twentieth Century Lowell T. Frye Finnegans Wake as "Sartor's Risorted" or Sartor Retold: Recovering the Hidden Carlyle in Joyce Kazuo Yokouchi Re-Fashioning Carlyle: Sartor Resartus, Dress Studies, and the Monstrous John M. Ulrich Bibliography Index List of Contributors

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