Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

A selective bibliography of 24 active links for Thomas Carlyle, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages


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Literary Criticism

Ashton, Rosemary. Reviews of Thomas and Jane Carlyle: Portrait of a Marriage (Chatto and Windus) in The Guardian, 2/9/02; in New Statesman, 2/18/02; also in Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2003 (first page of article only)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Ralph Waldo Emerson's review of Carlyle's Past and Present

Kaplan, Fred. A review of Thomas Carlyle: A Biography by Fred Kaplan. First page of review only. Reviewed by Frank M. Turner in The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Mar., 1986), pp. 303-305

Sorensen, David R. and Rodger L. Tarr, eds. Publisher's blurb for The Carlyles at Home and Abroad (Ashgate)

Tarr, Rodger L. and D. J. Trela, eds. The Critical Response to Thomas Carlyle's Major Works (Greenwood Press, 1997). At Questia; Also publisher's blurb

Uglow, Nathan. A substantial introduction to Thomas Carlyle from the Literary Encyclopedia



Introductory, Overview, Web Sites

"The Carlyles in Scotland and Europe," a report on a conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, 4-6 April, 2001

Scholarly and academic resources on Thomas and Jane Carlyle, compiled by Chris Vanden Bossche, Department of English, University of Notre Dame

Schedule for Thomas Carlyle Conference, July 12-13, 2007 Villanova University

The Carlyle Letters web site from Department of English, University of Edinburgh

"Thomas and Jane Carlyle: The First Celebrity Couple?" Interview with Rosemary Ashton, British Broadcasting Company

The Carlyle Society web page

Isaac Dyer Papers on Thomas Carlyle, 1889-1941, at Bowdoin College

Web site for the Carlyles' House, "Once the hub of Victorian literary society," 24 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London

Catalog for the bicentenary exhibit of the Rodger L. Tarr Collection of Thomas Carlyle, at Univ. of South Carolina

Older criticism of Thomas Carlyle's major and minor works and a biography, from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21)

Overview of Victorian literature including the writings of Thomas Carlyle, from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

The Victorian Web has good essays on Thomas Carlyle's writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian background

An introduction to Thomas Carlyle from the Books and Writers web site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland

For a list of Thomas Carlyle's etexts available on the internet, use this link to the On-Line Books Page, a search engine from John Mark Ockerbloom that provides links to full texts on the internet

A guide to research resources from the Victoria discussion list for Victorian Studies


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