Thomas Carlyle's difficult and obscure prose - the bane of every reader who has attempted to come to terms with his works - has often been interpreted as a reflection of the author's temperament or idiosyncrasies. Mary Desaulniers, however, argues that Carlyle's language is a deliberate strategy for revisioning language and places it within an "economics" of representation. By situating his prose within the Gothic tradition, with its history of resistance to linguistic transparency, Desaulniers makes the provocative claim that in The French Revolution Carlyle uses revisionary Gothicism as a linguistic vehicle for economic and political issues.
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- Includes bibliographical references: p. [129]-135
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- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- PR4438
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- D43 1995eb
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Preface 10
- Abbreviations 8
- Introduction 14
- 1 Carlyle and the Economics of Terror 20
- 2 Faustian Analogues 45
- 3 Economics and Economy in The French Revolution 71
- 4 Economics and Economy in the King's Glorious Body 105
- 5 Afterword: Sordello and the Economics of Representation 116
- Conclusion 131
- Notes 134
- Bibliography 140
- Index 148
- A 148
- B 148
- C 148
- D 149
- E 149
- F 149
- G 149
- H 149
- I 149
- K 149
- L 149
- M 150
- O 150
- P 150
- R 150
- S 150
- T 150
- W 151
