Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle explained
Thomas Carlyle published numerous works, and many more have been written about him by other authors.
By Carlyle
Major works
The standard edition of Carlyle's works is the Works in Thirty Volumes, also known as the Centenary Edition. The date given is when the work was "originally published."
- Book: The Works of Thomas Carlyle in Thirty Volumes . . 1896–1899 . Traill . Henry Duff . Henry Duff Traill . London . none .
Marginalia
This is a list of selected books, pamphlets and broadsides uncollected in the Miscellanies through 1880 as well as posthumous first editions and unpublished manuscripts.
- Ireland and Sir Robert Peel (1849)
- Legislation for Ireland (1849)
- Ireland and the British Chief Governor (1849)
- Froude, James Anthony, ed. (1881). Reminiscences. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Reminiscences of My Irish Journey in 1849 (1882). London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington.
- Last Words of Thomas Carlyle: On Trades-Unions, Promoterism and the Signs of the Times (1882). 67 Princes Street, Edinburgh: William Paterson.
- Norton, Charles Eliot, ed. (1883). The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.
- Norton, Charles Eliot, ed. (1886). Early Letters of Thomas Carlyle. London and New York: Macmillan and Co.
- Thomas Carlyle's Counsels to a Literary Aspirant: A Hitherto Unpublished Letter of 1842 and What Came of Them (1886). Edinburgh: James Thin, South Bridge.
- Norton, Charles Eliot, ed. (1887). Reminiscences. London and New York: Macmillan and Co.
- Norton, Charles Eliot, ed. (1887). Correspondence Between Goethe and Carlyle. London and New York: Macmillan and Co.
- Norton, Charles Eliot, ed. (1888). Letters of Thomas Carlyle. London and New York: Macmillan and Co.
- Thomas Carlyle on the Repeal of the Union (1889). London: Field & Tuer, the Leadenhall Press.
- Newberry, Percy, ed. (1892). Rescued Essays of Thomas Carlyle. The Leadenhall Press.
- Last Words of Thomas Carlyle (1892). London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Karkaria, R. P., ed. (1892). Lectures on the History of Literature. London: Curwen, Kane & Co.
- Greene, J. Reay, ed. (1892). Lectures on the History of Literature. London: Ellis and Elvey.
- Carlyle, Alexander, ed. (1898). Historical Sketches of Notable Persons and Events in the Reigns of James I and Charles I. London: Chapman and Hall Limited.
- Norton, Charles Eliot, ed. (1898). Two Note Books of Thomas Carlyle. New York: The Grolier Club.
- Copeland, Charles Townsend, ed. (1899). Letters of Thomas Carlyle to His Youngest Sister. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company.
- Jones, Samuel Arthur, ed. (1903). Collecteana. Canton, Pennsylvania: The Kirgate Press.
- Carlyle, Alexander, ed. (1904). New Letters of Thomas Carlyle. London: The Bodley Head.
- Book: The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh . The Bodley Head . 2 vols. . 1909 . Carlyle . Alexander . London . none.
- Carlyle . Thomas . 1922 . Notes of a Three-Days' Tour to the Netherlands . Cornhill Magazine . 53 . 626–640 . none .
- Carlyle, Alexander, ed. (1923). Letters of Thomas Carlyle to John Stuart Mill, John Sterling and Robert Browning. London: T. Fisher Unwin LTD.
- Brooks, Richard Albert Edward, ed. (1940). Journey to Germany, Autumn 1858. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Graham Jr., John, ed. (1950). Letters of Thomas Carlyle to William Graham. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Shine, Hill, ed. (1951). Carlyle's Unfinished History of German Literature. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press.
- Bliss, Trudy, ed. (1953). Letters to His Wife. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd.
- King . Marjorie P. . 1954 . "Illudo Chartis": An Initial Study in Carlyle's Mode of Composition . The Modern Language Review . 49 . 2 . 164–175 . 10.2307/3718901 . 3718901 . 0026-7937 . none .
- Baumgarten . Murray . 1968 . Carlyle and "Spiritual Optics" . Victorian Studies . 11 . 4 . 503–522 . 3825228 . 0042-5222 . none .
- Book: The Letters of Thomas Carlyle to His Brother Alexander: with Related Family Letters . The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press . 1968 . Marrs . Edwin W. Jr. . Cambridge, Massachusetts . registration . none .
- Book: Two Reminiscences of Thomas Carlyle . Duke University Press . 1974 . Clubbe . John . Durham, N.C. . 978-0822303077 . registration . none .
- Fielding . K.J. . 1979 . Unpublished Manuscripts – I: Carlyle Among the Cannibals . Carlyle Newsletter . 1 . 22–28 . 44945570 . 0269-8226 . none .
- Henderson, Heather, ed. (1979). Wooden-Headed Publishers and Locust-Swarms of Authors. University of Edinburgh.
- Campbell, Ian, ed. (1980). Thomas and Jane: Selected Letters from the Edinburgh University Library Collection. Edinburgh.
- Fielding . K.J. . 1980 . Unpublished Manuscripts – II: Carlyle's Scenario for "Cromwell" . Carlyle Newsletter . 2 . 6–13 . 44945576 . 0269-8226 . none .
- Kaplan . Fred . 1980 . "Phallus-Worship" (1848): Unpublished Manuscripts – III: A Response to the Revolution of 1848 . Carlyle Newsletter . 2 . 19–23 . 44945578 . 0269-8226 . none .
- Carlyle . Thomas . 1981 . The Guises . Victorian Studies . 25 . 1 . 13–80 . 3827058 . 0042-5222 . none .
- Trela . D. J. . 1984 . Carlyle and the Beautiful People: An Unpublished Manuscript . Carlyle Newsletter . 5 . 36–41 . 44937838 . 0269-8226 . none .
- Tarr, Rodger L.; McClelland, Fleming, eds. (1986). The Collected Poems of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Greenwood, Florida: The Penkevill Publishing Company.
- Fielding . K. J. . 1991 . Carlyle Writes Local History: "Dumfries-Shire Three Hundred Years Ago" . Carlyle Annual . 12 . 3–7 . 44945533 . 1050-3099 . none .
- Fielding . K. J. . Neuberg . J. . 1992 . New Notes for "The Letters": I. Carlyle's Sketch of Joseph Neuberg II. "Leave it Alone; Time Will Mend It" . Carlyle Annual . 13 . 3–15 . 44945549 . 1050-3099 . none .
- de L. Ryals . Clyde . 1995 . Thomas Carlyle on the Mormons: An Unpublished Essay . Carlyle Studies Annual . 15 . 49–54 . 44946088 . 1074-2670 . none .
- Campbell . Ian . 1996-01-01 . Peter Lithgow: New Fiction by Thomas Carlyle . Studies in Scottish Literature . 29 . 1 . 0039-3770 . none .
- Hubbard, Tom (2005), "Carlyle, France and Germany in 1870", in Hubbard, Tom (2022), Invitation to the Voyage: Scotland, Europe and Literature, Rymour, pp. 44 – 46,
Scholarly editions
- Book: Past and Present . New York University Press . 2000 . Altick . Richard D. . Richard Altick . Reprint . New York . none .
- Book: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin . . 1982 . Cate . George Allen . Stanford, California . none .
- Book: Reminiscences . Kennedy & Boyd . 2009 . Fielding . Kenneth J. . Reprint . Glasgow . Campbell . Ian . none .
- Book: Carlyle's Latter-Day Pamphlets . Canadian Federation for the Humanities . 1983 . Goldberg . M. K. . Seigel . J. P. . none .
- Book: Sartor Resartus . Oxford University Press . 2008 . McSweenery . Kerry . Oxford World's Classics . Oxford . Sabor . Peter . none .
- Book: The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle . . 1970–2022 . Sanders . Charles Richard . . Fielding . Kenneth J. . Ryals . Clyde de L. . Campbell . Ian . Christianson . Aileen . Clubbe . John . McIntosh . Sheila . Smith . Hilary . Sorensen . David. none .
- Book: . Columbia University Press . 1964 . Slater . Joseph . New York and London . none .
- Book: The French Revolution . Oxford University Press . 2019 . Sorensen . David R. . Oxford World's Classics . Oxford . Kinser . Brent E. . Engel . Mark . none .
- Book: The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle . University of California Press . 6 vols. . 1993–2022 . Berkeley and Los Angeles . none .
Memoirs, etc.
- Book: Allingham, William . William Allingham's Diary 1847–1889 . Centaur Press . 1907 . Paperback . London . 2000 . William Allingham . none .
- Baker . William . 1976-01-01 . Herbert Spencer's unpublished reminiscences of Thomas Carlyle: The "Perfect owl of minerva for knowledge" on a "Poet without music" . Neophilologus . en . 60 . 1 . 145–152 . 10.1007/BF01513592 . 161087774 . 1572-8668 . none .
- Book: Boyle, Mary . Her Book . John Murray . 1902 . Boyle . Sir Courtenay . London . 267–268 . Carlyle . https://archive.org/details/maryboyleherbook00boyl/page/n317/mode/2up . none .
- Book: Conway, Moncure D. . Thomas Carlyle . . 1881 . London . none .
- Book: Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan . Conversations with Carlyle . Charles Scribner's Sons . 1892 . New York . Charles Gavan Duffy . none .
- Book: Espinasse, Francis . Literary Recollections and Sketches . Hodder and Stoughton . 1893 . London . Francis Espinasse . none .
- Book: Fox, Caroline . Memories of Old Friends: Being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox of Penjerrick, Cornwall, from 1835 to 1871 . Smith, Elder & Co. . 1883 . Pym . Horace N. . London . Caroline Fox . none .
- Book: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth . Carlyle's Laugh, and Other Surprises . Houghton Mifflin Company . 1909 . Boston and New York . 1–12 . Carlyle's Laugh . https://archive.org/details/carlyleslaughan01higggoog/page/n16/mode/2up . none .
- Knighton . William . 1881 . Conversations with Carlyle. . Contemporary Review . 39 . 904–920 . none .
- Larkin . Henry . 1881 . Carlyle, and Mrs. Carlyle: A Ten-Years' Reminiscence. . The British Quarterly Review . 74 . 84–64 . none .
- Book: Masson, David . Carlyle Personally and in His Writings . 1885 . none .
- Norton, Charles Eliot (1886). "Recollections of Carlyle". The New Princeton Review. 2 (4): 1–19.
- Book: Tyndall, John . New Fragments . Appleton . 1890 . New York . 1892 . 347–391 . Personal Recollections of Thomas Carlyle . https://archive.org/details/newfragments00tyndrich/page/346/mode/2up . none .
- Book: Symington, Andrew J. . Some Personal Reminiscences of Carlyle . 1886 . none .
Biographies
- Book: The Everyman Encyclopædia . Everyman's Encyclopaedia . J. M. Dent & Sons, LTD. . 1913–1914 . Boyle . Andrew . Andrew Boyle (journalist) . Three . London . 325–327 . Carlyle, Thomas . Everyman's library Reference . https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015063714342&view=1up&seq=350&skin=2021 . none .
- Book: Campbell, Ian . Thomas Carlyle . Kennedy & Boyd . 1974 . 2nd Revised . Glasgow, Scotland . 24 June 2011 . none .
- Book: Campbell, Ian . Dictionary of Literary Biography . Gale . 1987 . Thomas Carlyle . http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Lisle/dial/carlyle.html . none .
- Book: Fischer, Thomas A. . Thomas Carlyle . 1882 . German . none .
- Book: Froude, James Anthony . Thomas Carlyle . Longmans, Green, and Co. . 4 vols. . 1882–1884 . London . none .
- Book: Garnett, Richard . Life of Thomas Carlyle . 1887 . none .
- Book: Heffer, Simon . Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle . Weidenfeld & Nicolson . 1996 . London . none .
- Book: Kaplan, Fred . Thomas Carlyle: A Biography . Cornell University Press . 1983 . Ithaca . Fred Kaplan (biographer) . none .
- Book: Morrow, John . Thomas Carlyle . Hambledon Continuum . 2006 . New York . 978-1852855444 . limited . none .
- Book: Neff, Emery . Carlyle . W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. . 1932 . New York . none .
- Book: Nichol, John . Thomas Carlyle . 1904 . John Nichol (biographer) . none .
- Book: Perry, Bliss . Thomas Carlyle: How to Know Him . The Bobbs-Merrill Company . 1915 . Indianapolis . none .
- Book: Shepherd, Richard Herne . Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Carlyle . 1881 . Richard Herne Shepherd . none .
- Book: Shine, Hill . Carlyle's Early Reading, to 1834 . University of Kentucky Libraries . 1953 . Occasional Contributions . 57 . Lexington . limited . none .
- Book: Sloan, J. M. . The Carlyle Country . The Grimsay Press . 1904 . Hollern . Mary . 2nd . Sheffield, England . 20 May 2010 . none .
- Book: Stephen, Leslie . . 1887 . Stephen . Leslie . 9 . 111–127 . Carlyle, Thomas . https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3ADictionary_of_National_Biography_volume_09.djvu/130 . none .
- Symons, Julian (1952). Thomas Carlyle: The Life and Ideas of a Prophet. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Book: Wilson, David Alec . Carlyle . Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., LTD. . 6 vols. . 1923–1934 . London . none .
- Book: Wylie, William Howie . Thomas Carlyle, the Man and His Books . 1881 . London . William Howie Wylie . none .
Secondary sources
- Book: Victorian Keats and Romantic Carlyle: The Fusions and Confusions of Literary Periods . Rodopi . 1999 . Barfoot . C. C. . Amsterdam & Atlanta, GA . 9042005785. limited . none .
- Book: Birrell, Augustine . Obiter Dicta . Chas. Scribner's Sons . 1885 . New York . Carlyle . Augustine Birrell . https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7299/7299-h/7299-h.htm#link2H_4_0002 . none .
- Bishirjian . Richard J. . 1976 . Carlyle's Political Religion . . 38 . 1 . 95–113 . 10.2307/2128963 . 2128963 . 153527096 . registration . none .
- Book: Campell, Ian . Victorian Prose Writers Before 1867 . Gale . 1987 . Thesing . William B. . Dictionary of Literary Biography . 55 . Detroit . 46–64 . Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) . 978-0810317338 . https://archive.org/details/victorianprosewr55nari/page/46/mode/2up . registration . none .
- Book: Chandler, Alice . A Dream of Order: The Medieval Ideal in Nineteenth-Century English Literature . University of Nebraska Press . 1970 . Lincoln . 9780803207042 . registration . none .
- Book: Carlyle and His Contemporaries: Essays in Honor of Charles Richard Sanders . . 1976 . 978-0822303404. Clubbe . John . Durham, North Carolina . registration . none .
- Book: Cole, J. A. . Lord Haw-Haw: The Full Story of William Joyce . Faber and Faber . 1964 . London . 9780571148608 . registration . none .
- Book: The Carlyle Encyclopedia . . 2004 . 978-0838637920. Cumming . Mark . Madison and Teaneck, NJ . limited . none .
- Book: Thomas Carlyle 1981: Papers Given at the International Thomas Carlyle Centenary Symposium . . 1983 . Drescher . Horst W. . Scottish Studies . Frankfurt am Main . 978-3820473278 . limited . none .
- Book: Dyer, Isaac Watson . A Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle's Writings and Ana . Burt Franklin . 1928 . New York . 1968 . registration . none .
- Book: Carlyle Past and Present: A Collection of New Essays . Vision Press . 1976 . 978-0854783731. Fielding . K. J. . Tarr . Rodger L. . registration . none .
- Harrold, Charles Frederick (1934). Carlyle and German Thought: 1819–1834. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Book: Jackson, Holbrook . Dreamers of Dreams: The Rise and Fall of 19th Century Idealism . Farrar, Straus and Company . 1948 . New York . Holbrook Jackson . none .
- Book: Jessop, Ralph . Carlyle and Scottish Thought . Macmillan Press . 1997 . none .
- Book: Joyce, William . Twilight Over England . Internationaler Verlag . 1940 . Berlin . none .
- Book: Thomas Carlyle Resartus: Reappraising Carlyle's Contribution to the Philosophy of History, Political Theory, and Cultural Criticism . Fairleigh Dickinson University Press . 2010 . 978-0838642238. Kerry . Paul E. . Madison and Teaneck, NJ . Hill . Marylu . limited . none .
- Book: Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence . Fairleigh Dickinson University Press . 2018 . 978-1683930662. Kerry . Paul E. . Madison and Teaneck, NJ . Pionke . Albert D. . Dent . Megan . limited . none .
- Book: LaValley, Albert J. . Carlyle and the Idea of the Modern: Studies in Carlyle's Prophetic Literature and Its Relation to Blake, Nietzsche, Marx, and Others . . 1968 . 978-0300006766. New Haven and London . registration . none .
- Book: Lea, F. A. . Carlyle: Prophet of To-day . Routledge . 2017 . Routledge Library Editions: Social and Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century . 2 . 10.4324/9781315563640 . 978-1315563640 . 1943 . none .
- McCollum . Jonathon C. . 2007-07-20 . Thomas Carlyle, Fascism, and Frederick: From Victorian Prophet to Fascist Ideologue . MA thesis . Brigham Young University . 1877/etd2044 . none .
- Mendilow . Jonathan . 1983 . The Neglected (I): Carlyle's Political Philosophy: Towards a Theory of Catch-All Extremism . . 18 . 1 . 68–87 . 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1983.tb00341.x . 44483466 . 145617742 . registration . none .
- Mendilow . Jonathan . 1984 . Carlyle, Marx & the ILP: Alternative Routes to Socialism . Polity . The University of Chicago Press . 17 . 2 . 225–247 . 10.2307/3234506 . 3234506. 147550498 . none .
- Book: Moldbug, Mencius . Moldbug on Carlyle . 5 April 2016 . Unqualified Reservations . B01DVJCCBQ . none .
- Book: Moore, Carlisle . The English Romantic Poets & Essayists: A Review of Research and Criticism . New York University Press . 1957 . Houtchens . Carolyn Washburn . Revised . New York . 1966 . Thomas Carlyle . Houtchens . Lawrence Huston . https://archive.org/details/englishromanticp00hout/page/332/mode/2up . none .
- Book: Norman, Edward . The Victorian Christian Socialists . Cambridge University Press . 1987 . Cambridge . none .
- Book: Pierson, Stanley . British Socialists: The Journey from Fantasy to Politics . Harvard University Press . 1979 . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 978-0674082823 . registration . none .
- Plotz . John . 2000 . Crowd Power: Chartism, Carlyle, and the Victorian Public Sphere . . 70 . 70 . 87–114 . 10.2307/2902894 . 2902894 . registration . none .
- Rosenberg, John D. (1985). Carlyle and the Burden of History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
- Rosenberg, Philip (1974). The Seventh Hero: Thomas Carlyle and the Theory of Radical Activism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
- Book: Sanders, Charles Richard . Carlyle's Friendships and Other Studies . Duke University Press . 1977 . Durham, N.C. . 978-0822303893 . registration . none .
- Book: Thomas Carlyle: The Critical Heritage . Routledge & Kegan Paul . 1971 . Seigel . Jules Paul . The Critical Heritage Series . London . 978-0710070906 . registration . none .
- Book: Shepherd, Richard Herne . The Bibliography of Carlyle . . 1881 . London . none .
- Book: Shine, Hill . Carlyle and the Saint-Simonians; the concept of historical periodicity. . 1971 . Octagon Books . 978-0374973605 . New York . none .
- Sorensen . David R. . 2009-03-01 . "Natural Supernaturalism": Carlyle's Redemption of the Past in The French Revolution . Revue LISA/LISA e-journal. Littératures, Histoire des Idées, Images, Sociétés du Monde Anglophone – Literature, History of Ideas, Images and Societies of the English-speaking World . en . VII. 3 . 442–451 . 10.4000/lisa.132 . 1762-6153 . free . none .
- Sorensen . David R. . 2012 . "The Great Pioneer of National Socialist Philosophy"?: Carlyle and Twentieth-Century Totalitarianism . Studies in the Literary Imagination. 45 . 1 . 43–66 . 10.1353/sli.2012.0000 . 153751576 . 2165-2678 . none .
- Web site: Sorensen . David . Kinser . Brent E. . 11 January 2018 . Thomas Carlyle . Oxford Bibliographies . 10.1093/OBO/9780199799558-0037 . none .
- Book: Tarr, Rodger L. . Thomas Carlyle: A Bibliography of English Language Criticism, 1824–1974 . . 1976 . Charlottesville . 978-0813906959 . registration . none .
- Book: Tarr, Rodger L. . Thomas Carlyle: A Descriptive Bibliography . University of Pittsburgh Press . 1989 . Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography . Pittsburgh . 978-0822936077 . registration . none .
- Book: Tennyson, G. B. . Sartor Called Resartus: The Genesis, Structure, and Style of Thomas Carlyle's First Major Work . Princeton University Press . 1965 . Princeton, New Jersey . 65017162 . registration . none .
- Book: Tennyson, G. B. . Victorian Prose: A Guide to Research . The Modern Language Association of America . 1973 . 978-0873522502. DeLaura . David J. . New York . 33–104 . Thomas Carlyle . registration . none .
- Book: The Critical Response to Thomas Carlyle's Major Works . Greenwood Press . 1997 . Trela . D. J. . Critical Responses in Arts and Letters . Westport, Conn. . 978-0313291074 . Tarr . Rodger L. . limited . none .
- Vanden Bossche, Chris R. (1991). Carlyle and the Search for Authority. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
- Book: Vida, Elizabeth M. . Romantic Affinities: German Authors and Carlyle; A Study in the History of Ideas . University of Toronto Press . 1993 . Heritage . 10.3138/j.ctvfrxchd . 978-1487573270 . limited . none .
- Book: Vijn, Dr. J. P. . Carlyle, Jung, and Modern Man: Jungian Concepts as Key to Carlyle's Mind . H. Brinkman-Vijn . 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221213153607/http://carlyle-jung-and-modern-man.com/pdf/Carlyle_Jung_and_Modern_Man.pdf . 13 December 2022 . none .
- Book: Wellek, René . Confrontations: studies in the intellectual and literary relations between Germany, England, and the United States during the nineteenth century . 1965 . Princeton University Press . Princeton, N.J. . René Wellek . none .
- Book: Young, Louise Merwin . Thomas Carlyle and the Art of History . 1971 . Octagon Books . 978-0374988418 . New York . none .