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"In his literary reviews and his important speculative essay "Biography," Thomas Carlyle worked out the aesthetic principles that would underwrite his major works from Sartor Resartus to the "Inaugural Address." In his essays on Baillie, Burns, and Scott, he sought to situat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 (Author)
Other Authors:	McClelland, Fleming (Editor), Kinser, Brent E. (Editor), Vanden Bossche, Chris (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Series:	Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Works. 1993 ; 5.
Subjects:	Carlyle, Thomas, > 1795-1881 > Criticism and interpretation. Carlyle, Thomas, > 1795-1881. 1800-1899 English literature > 19th century > Scottish authors. English literature > Scottish authors. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Miss Baillie's Metrical Legends
Burns
Voltaire
Biography
Boswell's Life of Johnson
Corn-Law Rhymes
Diderot
Sir Walter Scott
Heintze's translation of Burns
Preface to Emerson's essays
Notes
Textual apparatus.