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List of allusions to Carlyle in literature information


This article lists parodies of and references to Thomas Carlyle in literature.

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List of allusions to Carlyle in literature

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parodies of and references to Thomas Carlyle in literature. William Maginn parodied Carlyle in the "Gallery of Literary Characters" Number 37, appearing in Fraser's...

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Thomas Carlyle

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art, literature, and philosophy. Born in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Carlyle attended the University of Edinburgh where he excelled in mathematics...

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English literature

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English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over the course of more...

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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

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displays in the highest degree Carlyle's "discursiveness, allusiveness, argumentativeness, and his sense of playing the prophet's part." Carlyle earned...

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Walden

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Walden's use of biblical allusions. Such allusions are useful tools to convince readers because the Bible is seen as a principal book of truth.[dubious...

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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"father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He was the first writer to be buried in what has since come to be called...

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List of metafictional works

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This is a partial list of works that use metafictional ideas. Metafiction is intentional allusion or reference to a work's fictional nature. It is commonly...

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Dante Alighieri

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is unknown, although it is believed to be around May 1265. This can be deduced from autobiographic allusions in the Divine Comedy. Its first section...

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Divine Comedy

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work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of Western literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the...

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Samuel Johnson

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opposed the poetic language of his contemporary Thomas Gray. His greatest complaint was that obscure allusions found in works like Milton's Lycidas were...

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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LaValley, Albert J. (1968). Carlyle and the Idea of the Modern: Studies in Carlyle's Prophetic Literature and Its Relation to Blake, Nietzsche, Marx, and...

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William Shakespeare

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common name in the Lancashire area. It is not known definitively when Shakespeare began writing, but contemporary allusions and records of performances...

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Herman Melville

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allusion is more within the narrative rather than formal quotation. Several preferred Biblical allusions appear repeatedly throughout his body of work...

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Genius

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In accordance with his Great Man theory, Carlyle considered such individuals as Odin, William the Conqueror and Frederick the Great to be "Men of Genius"...

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List of organisms named after works of fiction

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elements. This is a list of real organisms with scientific names chosen to reference works of fiction. List of unusual biological names List of organisms named...

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Kural

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between 450 and 500 CE. His estimate is based on the language of the text, its allusions to the earlier works, and its borrowing from some Sanskrit treatises...

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American poetry

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England as a young man to meet these two English poets, as well as Thomas Carlyle. While Romanticism transitioned into Victorianism in post-reform England...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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contributed critical prose pieces to Richard Henry Horne's A New Spirit of the Age, including a laudatory essay on Thomas Carlyle. In 1844, she published the two-volume...

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The Abolition of Man

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Abolition of Man (PDF) (Ebook/PDF), Samizdat (public domain in Canada, as of 2014). "Notes on Quotations & Allusions in 'The Abolition of Man'", Lewisiana...

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Parody

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composition in another artist's manner, without satirical intent") and burlesque (which "fools around with the material of high literature and adapts it to low...

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Great Expectations

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contemporary Thomas Carlyle referred to it disparagingly as "that Pip nonsense", he nevertheless reacted to each fresh instalment with "roars of laughter". Later...

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List of cultural references in the Divine Comedy

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Dante Alighieri, bilingual edition with commentaries and notes, J. A. Carlyle, P.H. Wicksteed and T. Okey (translators), H. Oelsner (notes), Temple Classics...

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