The Letters Of Thomas Carlyle To His Brother Alexander: With Related Family Letters
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few windows into the Victorian literary mind are as intimate and unguarded as a collection of private correspondence, and The Letters of Thomas Carlyle to His Brother Alexander throws open those shutters with remarkable force. This meticulously edited volume gathers the personal letters exchanged between Thomas Carlyle — one of the 19th century's most formidable essayists, historians, and social critics — and his brother Alexander, alongside a rich selection of related family correspondence that illuminates the domestic and emotional world behind one of literature's most publicly commanding figures. Edited with scholarly precision by Edwin W. Marrs, Jr., the collection presents a Carlyle stripped of rhetorical thunder, revealing instead a devoted brother, an anxious son, and a man deeply tethered to his Scottish roots even as he shaped the intellectual currents of an age. The letters chronicle the arc of Carlyle's life and thought across decades, offering scholars and general readers alike an invaluable counterpoint to his published works — from Sartor Resartus to The French Revolution — by grounding grand ideas in the textures of everyday life. Marrs's editorial apparatus is both authoritative and unobtrusive, allowing the voices of the Carlyle family to speak with clarity and warmth. For anyone captivated by Victorian literature, intellectual history, or the art of letter-writing itself, this volume raises an irresistible question: what does a genius sound like when he is simply writing home?
Author: Edwin W. Marrs, Jr.
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few windows into the Victorian literary mind are as intimate and unguarded as a collection of private correspondence, and The Letters of Thomas Carlyle to His Brother Alexander throws open those shutters with remarkable force. This meticulously edited volume gathers the personal letters exchanged between Thomas Carlyle — one of the 19th century's most formidable essayists, historians, and social critics — and his brother Alexander, alongside a rich selection of related family correspondence that illuminates the domestic and emotional world behind one of literature's most publicly commanding figures. Edited with scholarly precision by Edwin W. Marrs, Jr., the collection presents a Carlyle stripped of rhetorical thunder, revealing instead a devoted brother, an anxious son, and a man deeply tethered to his Scottish roots even as he shaped the intellectual currents of an age. The letters chronicle the arc of Carlyle's life and thought across decades, offering scholars and general readers alike an invaluable counterpoint to his published works — from Sartor Resartus to The French Revolution — by grounding grand ideas in the textures of everyday life. Marrs's editorial apparatus is both authoritative and unobtrusive, allowing the voices of the Carlyle family to speak with clarity and warmth. For anyone captivated by Victorian literature, intellectual history, or the art of letter-writing itself, this volume raises an irresistible question: what does a genius sound like when he is simply writing home?