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Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, historian, social critic, and translator who became an influential figure in Victorian intellectual life. His works include the experimental philosophical novel Sartor Resartus, The French Revolution: A History, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History. His forceful prose examined leadership, industrial society, historical change, and spiritual uncertainty.
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Who was Thomas Carlyle?
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish historian, essayist, social critic, and translator who lived from 1795 to 1881. He became a major Victorian public intellectual through works on history, leadership, labor, and society.
What is Sartor Resartus about?
Sartor Resartus is an experimental philosophical novel presented through the writings and commentary of the fictional German thinker Diogenes Teufelsdröckh. It was published in book form in 1836 after appearing in serialized form in the early 1830s.
What did Thomas Carlyle write about the French Revolution?
His three-volume The French Revolution: A History was published in 1837. Carlyle used vivid narrative and dramatic historical scenes to describe the collapse of the French monarchy and the revolutionary years.
What is Carlyle's On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History?
It is a book based on lectures Carlyle delivered in London in 1840 and published in 1841. The chapters examine figures such as the prophet, poet, priest, man of letters, and ruler as forces in history.
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