For Sale: The French Revolution a History by Thomas Carlyle (1889), digitally scanned copy.

Title: The French Revolution a History by Thomas Carlyle (1889)
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Author: Thomas CARLYLE (M: 1795 Dec 4 - 1881 Feb 5)  was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, whose work was highly influential during the Victorian era.  Coming from a strict Calvinist family, Carlyle was expected by his parents to become a preacher, but while at the University of Edinburgh, he lost his Christian faith. Calvinist values, however, remained with him throughout his life. This combination of a religious temperament with loss of faith in traditional Christianity made Carlyle's work appealing to many Victorians who were grappling with scientific and political changes that threatened the traditional social order. (source wikipedia)

Published: LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, LIMITED. 1889.

Description:
In 1834, Carlyle moved to London from Craigenputtock and began to move among celebrated company. Within the United Kingdom Carlyle's success was assured by the publication of his two-volume work The French Revolution, A History in 1837. After the completed manuscript of the first volume was accidentally burned by the philosopher John Stuart Mill's maid, Carlyle wrote the second and third volumes before rewriting the first from scratch. The resulting work was filled with a passionate intensity, hitherto unknown in historical writing. In a politically charged Europe, filled with fears and hopes of revolution, Carlyle's account of the motivations and urges that inspired the events in France seemed powerfully relevant. Carlyle's style of writing emphasised this, continually stressing the immediacy of the action – often using the present tense. For Carlyle, chaotic events demanded what he called 'heroes' to take control over the competing forces erupting within society. While not denying the importance of economic and practical explanations for events, he saw these forces as essentially 'spiritual' in character – the hopes and aspirations of people that took the form of ideas, and were often ossified into ideologies ('formulas' or 'isms', as he called them). In Carlyle's view only dynamic individuals could master events and direct these spiritual energies effectively. As soon as ideological 'formulas' replaced heroic human action society became dehumanised. (source wikipedia)

Contents: (extract)
THE BASTILLE. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. , Louis the Well-beloved, Viaticum, Louis the Unforgotten,  Astrsea Redux, Petition in Hieroglyphs, Maurepas,  THE PARLEMENT OF PARIS. Controller Calonne, Lomenie's Edicts, THE THIRD ESTATE,  Mercury de Breze, Broglie the War-God, The Lanterne, The Fourth Estate, THE INSURRECTION OF WOMEN,  Patrollotism, The Menads, Lafayette, Versailles, the Tuileries, Solemn League, NANCI, Bouille at Metz, Inspector Malseigne, The Day of Poniards, Mirabeau, Count Fersen, Avignon, The Jacobins,  Minister Roland, THE MARSEILLESE., THE GUILLOTINE, Danton, Dumouriez, REGICIDE, Place de la Revolution, Sansculottism accoutred, Charlotte Corday, Marie-Antoinette, Carmagnole, VENDEMIAIRE, LaCabarus, Quiberon, CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY

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