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The Victorian Eighteenth Century
An Intellectual History
Young, B.W. University Lecturer and Student and Tutor in History, Christ Church College, Oxford
Print publication date: 2007 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925622-8




2 Carlyle, Friedrich, and the ‘Bastard Heroic’
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256228.003.0003

B. W. Young
Abstract: This chapter explores Thomas Carlyle's portrayal of Frederick the Great. It is argued that Carlyle's heroic portrait of Frederick the Great allowed him to construct and indulge a nostalgic politics from afar. Whereas The French Revolution acquired a mass of readers and devotees, the work on Frederick was never to achieve anything like the same popularity; readers had grown tired of Carlyle's explorations of the 18th century.

Keywords: Thomas Carlyle, Frederick the Great, The French Revolution, 18th century,

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Full Book Contents
Introduction
1 Carlyle and the ‘Distracted Century’
2 Carlyle, Friedrich, and the ‘Bastard Heroic’
3 Gibbon, Newman, and the Religious Accuracy of the Historian
4 The Stephen Family and the Eighteenth Century
5 Hanoverian Hauntings
Index
 
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