Thomas Carlyle — Leading Questions

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"Signs of the Times"

• Reading and discussion questions
• Text annotated in lieu of reading-question assignment

Chartism

• "Intellect" and "Logic" in Carlyle's "Chartism"
• Man and Beast in Carlyle's "Chartism"
• The Possibility of the Impossible in Carlyle's "Chartism"
• Form, Shape, and Spirituality in Thomas Carlyle

Past and Present

• Dilettantism in Past and Present
• Rhetoric and Reason in Past and Present
• The Poor as Savages or Humans?
• Carlyle's Attacking the Reader

Heroes and Hero-Worship

• Reading and discussion questions
• They Too Were Men
• Carlyle and the Printing Press
• Carlyle is Bound to Lecture
• Heroes and Hero-Worship in "The Hero as Man of Letters"

Past and Present

• Rhetoric and Reason in Past and Present

Latter-Day Pamphlets

• Questions from a Flunkey Blockheaded Fool
• Prophet of the English God
• Practical Politics in "Hudson's Statue"
• Industrial Imagery in Carlyle's "Hudson's Statue"
• Invention of Voice in Carlyle's "Hudson's Statue"
• Effectiveness of Rhetorical Voices in Carlyle's "Hudson's Statue"
• Thomas Carlyle's use of Questions in "Hudson's Statue"
• Ventriloquism and Schizophrenia in Carlyle
• Money-making as religion in "Hudson's Statue"

General

• Carlyle and the Art of Persuasion
• Letters from Carlyle, Ruskin, and Tennyson on The Angel in the House

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Last modified 15 March 2009