Thomas Carlyle's Works

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Unless otherwise noted, all e-texts are available from Project Gutenberg.

The Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825)

• Schiller, Goethe, and the Career Narrative
• e-text

"Signs of the Time" (1829) —

• Annotated text in the Victorian Web
• Reading and Discussion Questions

The French Revolution (1837)

• Overview (sitemap)
• E-text
• "The Fall of the Bastille" text of chapters 6 and 7
• The French Revolution as Symbolic History
• Rebuilding the Social Structure
• Authoring the Constitution: The Problem of Closure
• Imagery, Narration, and Point of View in Carlyle's The French Revolution

Sartor Resartus (1838)

• E-text
• Sartor Resartus and the Revolution of 1830
• Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, and Victorian Ideas of Suicide and Will
• Edmund J. Sullivan's Illustrations for Sartor Resartus

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1839)

Chartism (1840)

• Chartism and the Rhetoric of Partisanship

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841)

• Sitemap
• E-text
• The "Hero as King" and the Idyll as Theocracy
• Cromwell

Past and Present (1843)

• E-text
• Epic as Action

Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches (1845)

Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)

• E-text of complete book
• Hudson's Statue (1851; on this site)

The Life of John Sterling (1851)

• Fathering the Literary Son: The Life of John Sterling
• E-text

Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question (1853)

• E-text

History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Fredrick the Great [6 volumes] (1858-65)

• The Son as Father: Frederick's Art of War

Inaugral Address at Edinburgh (1866)

Shooting Niagra (1867)

• The Eyre controversy and "Shooting Niagra"

The Early Kings of Norway (1875)

• E-text

Reminiscences (1881)

• Crisis in the Career: "The Reminiscence of James Carlyle"

Reminiscences of My Irish Journey in 1849 (1882)

Last Words of Thomas Carlyle (1882)

Related Resources

• Mitsuharu Matsuoka's Hyper-Concordance allows word searches the complete texts of Sartor, Heroes, and French Revolution

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Last modified 11 November 2010