Past and Present

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NYU Press, 1977 - Biography & Autobiography - 294 pages
An edited collection of Thomas Carlyle's seminal 19th century historical criticism of medieval history
 

Contents

CHAP PAGE I Midas
7
The Sphinx
13
Manchester Insurrection
20
Morrisons Pill
28
Aristocracy of Talent
32
HeroWorship
38
BOOK II
43
Jocelin of Brakelond
45
CHAP PAGE I Phenomena
139
Gospel of Mammonism
147
Gospel of Dilettantism
152
Happy
155
The English
159
Two Centuries
167
OverProduction
172
Unworking Aristocracy
176

St Edmundsbury
52
Landlord Edmund
56
Abbot Hugo
63
Twelfth Century
68
Monk Samson
72
The Canvassing
78
The Election
81
Abbot Samson
88
Government
94
The Abbots Ways
98
The Abbots Troubles
103
In Parliament
108
Henry of Essex
110
PracticalDevotional
114
St Edmund
121
The Beginnings
128
BOOK III
137
Working Aristocracy
184
Plugson of Undershot
189
Labour
196
Reward
201
Democracy
209
Sir Jabesh Windbag
221
Morrison Again
224
BOOK IV
237
Aristocracies
239
Bribery Committee
250
The One Institution
255
Captains of Industry
267
Permanence
274
The Landed
279
The Gifted
285
The Didactic
290
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Altick is Regent's Professor of English at The Ohio State University.