Thomas Carlyle — Image, Symbol, and Motif

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"Characteristics"

• Greatness in Carlyle's "Characteristics" and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh

"Hudson's Statue"

• Carlyle's attacks on the Wealthy in "Hudson's Statue"
• Coiners in "Hudson's Statue"
• Carlyle's Allusions to the Brazen Serpent in "Hudson's Statue"
• Industrial Imagery in Carlyle's "Hudson's Statue"

The French Revolution

• Imagery, Narration, and Point of View in Carlyle's The French Revolution
• The Bastille as metaphor for the ancien regime in The French Revolution
• Fire as dominant image in The French Revolution
• Metaphor of the paper building in The French Revolution
• Different use of image and symbol in The French Revolution and Cromwell's Letters and Speeches almost devoid of symbolic interpretation

Past and Present

• Carlyle, Midas, and Enchantment
• Carlyle and Murdered Children
• Amphibious Popes, Seven-Foot Hats

General

• Carlyle's Grotesque Symbols and Symbolical Grotesques
• Evolution in Carlyle and Tennyson

Attitudes towards Symbolic Thought

• On Allegory
• Carlyle's Use of Christian Biblical Interpretation
• Visionary Promises

Bibliography

Landow, George P. "'Swim or Drown': Carlyle's World of Shipwrecks, Castaways, and Stranded Voyagers." Studies in English Literature 15 (1975), 641-55.

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