{"product_id":"past-and-present-9780198841081","title":"Past and Present","description":"Thomas Carlyle's \u003cem\u003ePast and Present\u003c\/em\u003e (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the author described as a 'miraculous thunder-voice, from out of the centre of the world.' The impact of Carlyle's social criticism was immediate and profound, shaping debate about the 'The Condition of England' question well into the twentieth century and beyond, and serving as the moral foundation of the welfare state. His relentlessly abrasive and illuminating critique of industrial civilization generated a vast range of response both in England, Europe, and the United States. The writings of Matthew Arnold, John Stuart Mill, William Morris, John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin, as well as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Walt Whitman, were saturated with imagery and ideas directly indebted to the book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003ePast and Present\u003c\/em\u003e also provided novelists and poets with an enduring vision of the ubiquitous rot that lay at the heart of '\u003cem\u003elaissez-faire\u003c\/em\u003e' 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 \u003cem\u003eChristmas Carol\u003c\/em\u003e (1843), \u003cem\u003eDombey and Son\u003c\/em\u003e (1848), \u003cem\u003eBleak House\u003c\/em\u003e (1852-53), and \u003cem\u003eHard Times\u003c\/em\u003e (1854); Benjamin Disraeli's \u003cem\u003eSybil\u003c\/em\u003e (1845); Elizabeth Gaskell's \u003cem\u003eMary Barton\u003c\/em\u003e (1848) and \u003cem\u003eNorth and South\u003c\/em\u003e (1855); and Charles Kingsley's \u003cem\u003eAlton Locke\u003c\/em\u003e (1850). Poets such as Alfred Tennyson in \u003cem\u003eMaud\u003c\/em\u003e (1855), Elizabeth Barrett Browning in \u003cem\u003eAurora Leigh\u003c\/em\u003e (1856), and Arthur Hugh Clough in \u003cem\u003eThe Latest Decalogue\u003c\/em\u003e (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 \u003cem\u003eWork\u003c\/em\u003e (1852-65) to give visual testimony to the profound social schisms that Carlyle had exposed in \u003cem\u003ePast and Present\u003c\/em\u003e and to pay tribute to the 'Sage' who had 'moulded\u003cbr\u003epattern.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/27\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198841081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs","brand":"Thomas Carlyle, David R. Sorensen, Brent E. Kinser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42907714027701,"sku":"9780198841081","price":7.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_391d3572-56e1-4457-bcdf-69cbdc65b051.jpg?v=1686667392","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/past-and-present-9780198841081","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}