Description: Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence positions Carlyle as an ideal representative figure through which to study that complex interplay between past and present most commonly referred to as influence.
Review Quotes: "Influence is a tricky thing. Ample evidence for this truism can be found in Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence. In an interesting and useful compilation from a variety of new and familiar voices, editors Paul E. Kerry, Albert D. Pionke, and Megan Dent have assembled eighteen essays derived from lectures given at the Oxford Research Center for the Humanities in July 2016. Organized in three sections on a wide range of topics and individuals, all of the essays, in various ways and degrees of success, reveal Thomas Carlyle's ubiquitous presence in nineteenth-century discourse." --Victorian Studies