English Literature / Unit 15 ENL 1423 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Thomas Carlyle
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The idea
Thomas Carlyle wrote Sartor Resartus, a philosophical novel on a German philosopher of clothes, The French Revolution and On Heroes. In Chartism, of eighteen thirty-nine, he raised the condition-of-England question, and he called political economy "the dismal science."
In practice
Prophet, historian, critic of industry.
Where people slip
Carlyle shaped Dickens's Hard Times.
Your place on the trail
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