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  1. Essays on Literature
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Chronology of Carlyle’s Life -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Illustrations -- Essays on Literature -- Miss Baillie’s Metrical Legends -- Burns -- Voltaire -- Biography -- Boswell’s... more

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    Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Chronology of Carlyle’s Life -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Illustrations -- Essays on Literature -- 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 -- Works Cited -- Textual Apparatus -- Index Essays on Literature brings together ten of the most important literary reviews and essays written by the acclaimed Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle. Spanning his writing career, the essays allow the reader to track Carlyle's development as a reviewer and stylist, the evolution of his perennial themes, and the tremendous impact of his writing on the development of British and American literature. In keeping with the Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, these essays are accompanied by a thorough historical introduction to the material, extensive notes providing historical and cultural context while expanding on references and allusions, and a textual apparatus that carefully details and explains the editorial decisions made in reconciling the many editions of each essay

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520974463
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    Series: The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle ; 5
    Subjects: English literature; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
    Other subjects: 19th century; boswell; british literature; burns; canon; carlyle; classic; corn law rhymes; diderot; great britain; life of johnson; literary criticism; literary reviews; literature; metrical legends; preface to emersons essays; social critic; victorian england; victorian literature; victorian period; victorian philosopher; victorian prose; voltaire; walter scott
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (880 p)
  2. Essays on Literature
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Chronology of Carlyle’s Life -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Illustrations -- Essays on Literature -- Miss Baillie’s Metrical Legends -- Burns -- Voltaire -- Biography -- Boswell’s... more

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    Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Chronology of Carlyle’s Life -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Illustrations -- Essays on Literature -- 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 -- Works Cited -- Textual Apparatus -- Index Essays on Literature brings together ten of the most important literary reviews and essays written by the acclaimed Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle. Spanning his writing career, the essays allow the reader to track Carlyle's development as a reviewer and stylist, the evolution of his perennial themes, and the tremendous impact of his writing on the development of British and American literature. In keeping with the Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, these essays are accompanied by a thorough historical introduction to the material, extensive notes providing historical and cultural context while expanding on references and allusions, and a textual apparatus that carefully details and explains the editorial decisions made in reconciling the many editions of each essay

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520974463
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    Series: The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle ; 5
    Subjects: English literature; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
    Other subjects: 19th century; boswell; british literature; burns; canon; carlyle; classic; corn law rhymes; diderot; great britain; life of johnson; literary criticism; literary reviews; literature; metrical legends; preface to emersons essays; social critic; victorian england; victorian literature; victorian period; victorian philosopher; victorian prose; voltaire; walter scott
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (880 p)
  3. Dilemmas of Enlightenment
    Studies in the Rhetoric and Logic of Ideology
    Published: [2020]; ©1993
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    Oscar Kenshur combines trenchant analyses of important early-modern texts with a powerful critique of postmodern theories of ideology. He thereby contributes both to our understanding of Enlightenment thought and to contemporary debates about... more

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    Oscar Kenshur combines trenchant analyses of important early-modern texts with a powerful critique of postmodern theories of ideology. He thereby contributes both to our understanding of Enlightenment thought and to contemporary debates about cultural studies and critical theory. While striving to resolve "dilemmas" occasioned by conflicting intellectual and political commitments, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers often relied upon ideas originally used by their enemies to support very different claims. Thus, they engaged in what Kenshur calls "intellectual co-optation." In exploring the ways in which Dryden, Bayle, Voltaire, Johnson, and others used this technique, Kenshur presents a historical landscape distinctly different from the one constructed by much contemporary theory

     

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  4. Candide - Voltaire
    Author: Voltaire
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Lumbreras Classics Books, Vachendorf

  5. Essai sur les guerres civiles de France
    Les conflits religieux et politiques en France au XVIe siècle; suivi des minutes du procès criminel de François Ravaillac, assassin du roi Henri IV
    Author: Voltaire
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  BoD – Books on Demand – Frankreich, Norderstedt

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: French
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9782322540273; 2322540277
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    Edition: 1. Auflage
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Paperback / softback; histoire de France; guerres civiles; voltaire; conflits religieux; tolérance; (VLB-WN)1118: Hardcover, Softcover / Belletristik/Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
    Scope: 62 Seiten, 21 cm x 14.8 cm, 104 g