"Signs of the Times".
Edited by George P. Landow.
The Victorian Web, 2009.
This essay was first published in The Edinburgh Review, volume 49, number 98, article 7, pages 439-459, June 1829.
Essay Links:
- The Victorian Web, 2009.
- Archive.org, The Edinburgh Review, volume 49, number 98, article 7, pages 439-459, June 1829.
- Archive.org, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Boston, 1838, volume 2, pages 143-171.
- Archive.org, Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Library Edition, In Thirty Volumes, volume 7; Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, In Six Volumes, volume 2, London, 1869; 1889, pages 313-342.
- Archive.org, The Works of Thomas Carlyle, Centenary Edition, Edited by Henry Duff Traill, London, 1899, volume 27, pages 56-82.
The Victorian Web edition of "Signs of the Times" contains many links to annotations that explain various terms used by Carlyle. These supplementary notes, not without defects, are usually more thorough than the footnotes or endnotes in any print edition; I found them very helpful.
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Editor:
- George Landow (professor) (1940—2023), Wikipedia.
- George P. Landow, The Victorian Web.
- George P Landow, Professor Emeritus of English and History of Art, Brown University.
- The Victorian Web, a website created and edited by George P. Landow.
- George P. Landow. Elegant Jeremiahs: The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1986. Abington, UK: Routledge, 2015.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Online Edition at "The Victorian Web" website.] - George P. Landow. Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows: Biblical Typology in Victorian Literature, Art and Thought. Boston and London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. Abington, UK: Routledge, 2015.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Online Edition at "The Victorian Web" website.] - George Landow, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
- Landow, George P., The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
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Wikipedia and Other Articles:
- Thomas Carlyle, The Victorian Web.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881).
- Thomas Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, 1838–1839.
- Condition-of-England question.
- Thomas Carlyle's prose style.
- Victorian era, 1837–1901.
- English literature: Romanticism (1798–1837).
- English literature: Victorian literature (1837–1901).
- Victorian literature.
- Sage writing.
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"Signs of the Times" is included in many anthologies of Carlyle's writings. For example:
- Thomas Carlyle. Selected Writings. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 2015.
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