Signs of the Times and the Transition of Ages
In 1829 Thomas Carlyle wrote of the move to the Mechanical Age- why is it such a beautiful and evocative passage?
For our first piece this month I want to discuss one of my favourite passages of proto-Victorian literature. It was written by the Scottish Essayist Thomas Carlyle, and first appeared in the Edinburgh Review in June 1829 as part of an essay entitled Signs of the Times, which is essentially a antecedent of Carlyle’s later …
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