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THOMAS CARLYLE'S 'CHARTISM': A CRITICAL AND ANNOTATED EDITION
Abstract
Thoughtful Enlishmen in the late 1830's looked uneasily about them- selves upon a troubled nation. An industrial revolution was rapidly 1 remaking society, but not without exacting a terrible toll. A large part of what had once been mainly an agrarian peasantry had been forced to break with its pastoral traditions, yoked to untiring machinery, and whipped sometimes beyond the limits of physical endurance. From intolerable working conditions, these industrial hordes retired to equally intolerable living conditions. Or, lacking any other means of subsistence, they surrendered in despair to the degradation of the hated workhouse "Bastille."
Subject Area
Modern literature|Literature
Recommended Citation
WEHTJE, VERNE VIRGIL, "THOMAS CARLYLE'S 'CHARTISM': A CRITICAL AND ANNOTATED EDITION" (1967). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI6710684.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI6710684