Contents
Chris R. Vanden Bossche, Professor of English, University of Notre Dame
- Preface
One .Introduction: The Crisis of Authority and the Critique of Political Economy Two. Becoming an Author: 1820-1830 - Schiller, Goethe, and the Career Narrative
- Carlyle's Fictions and the Career Narrative
- Authoring the Author
- Crisis in the Career: "The Reminiscence of James Carlyle"
Three. Revolution and Authority: 1830-1837 Sartor Resartus and the Revolution of 1830- The Author as Sansculotte
- From Craigenputtoch to London
- From Transcendental Novel to Epic History
The French Revolution as Symbolic History- Rebuilding the Social Structure
- Authoring the Constitution: The Problem of Closure
Four. Authoring the Polity: 1838-1850 - Introduction
- From Literature to Polity
Chartism and the Rhetoric of Partisanship- The "Hero as King" and the Idyll as Theocracy
- Cromwell Past and Present
Past and Present : Epic as Action- Revolution in Search of Authority
- From the "Irish Question" to the "Nigger Question"
Five. The Return of the Father: 1851-1865 Six. The End of Writing - Closing Failures in
The Reminiscences and "Shooting Niagara" - The Eyre Controversy and the Dilemma of Literature
- List of Abbreviations
- Works Cited
Last modified 5 October 2001