Past and Present (Oxford World’s Classics)
Past and Present, published by Oxford University Press, offers a comprehensive exploration of historical and contemporary themes across 512 pages. This 2023 edition provides valuable insights in English, ideal for readers seeking an authoritative and engaging classic.
Past and Present also provided novelists and poets with an enduring vision of the ubiquitous rot that lay at the heart of ‘laissez-faire’ England. The repercussions of Carlyle’s unique analysis can be witnessed in the literary form and thematic content of such works as Charles Dickens’s Christmas Carol (1843), Dombey and Son (1848), Bleak House (1852-53), and Hard Times (1854); Benjamin Disraeli’s Sybil (1845); Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1855); and Charles Kingsley’s Alton Locke (1850). Poets such as Alfred Tennyson in Maud (1855), Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Aurora Leigh (1856), and Arthur Hugh Clough in The Latest Decalogue (1862) built a vocabulary that was steeped in the outrage and indignation of Carlyle’s polemic. The artist Ford Madox Brown attempted in his painting Work (1852-65) to give visual testimony to the profound social schisms that Carlyle had exposed in Past and Present and to pay tribute to the ‘Sage’ who had ‘moulded a nation to his pattern.’
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Publisher | Oxford University Press |
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Publication date | July 27, 2023 |
Language | English |
Print length | 512 pages |
ISBN-10 | 0198841086 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0198841081 |
Item Weight | 2.31 pounds |
Dimensions | 7.4 x 1.5 x 5.2 inches |