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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 editions of each essay.
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About the author
Chris R. Vanden Bossche is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of Carlyle and the Search for Authority and Reform Acts: Chartism, Social Agency, and the Victorian Novel, 1832–1867 and editor of several volumes in this series of editions of Carlyle’s works. Paul E. Kerry, Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University, has published a monograph on Goethe and edited books on Carlyle, Schiller, and Franklin. He is a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford’s Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government. Marylu Hill is a full teaching professor in the Augustine and Culture Seminar Program at Villanova University. Her publications include "A Tale of a Table: Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, and the Legacy of Thomas Carlyle" and Mothering Modernity: Feminism, Modernism, and the Maternal Muse.
