Victorian Sages
Victorian reflections on society, culture and the moral questions of a changing world.
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Sartor Resartus (meaning 'The tailor re-tailored') is an 1836 novel by Thomas Carlyle, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in November 1833–August 1834.
The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian Thomas Carlyle.
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, is a collection of six essays by Thomas Carlyle, published in 1841, based on a series of lectures he delivered in 1840.
Mill’s essay on the nature and limits of the power that society may rightly exercise over the individual, first published in 1859 and dedicated to the memory of his wife, Harriet Taylor Mill: a defence of free thought…
"Culture and Anarchy" is Arnold's most famous piece of writing on culture which established his High Victorian cultural agenda and remained dominant in debate from the 1860s until the 1950s.