Past and Present

by Thomas Carlyle, David R. Sorensen, Brent E. Kinser

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9780198841081
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/27/2023
Series:	Oxford World's Classics Series
Pages:	512
Sales rank:	351,995
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 5.20(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Thomas Carlyle

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).

Table 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

Editorial Reviews

"It is delightful to come across a polished textbook such as this one that invites scholars to use its resources, and then guides them towards further research." — Anna Faktorovich, Pennsylvania Literary Journal

"Students and teachers of this book will find this to very beneficial...it is delightful to come across a polished textbook such as this one that invites scholars to use its resources, and then guides them towards further research. It is absolutely necessary for all types of international libraries to include this edition of this socially-impactful classic." — Pennsylvania Literary Journa

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