Latter-Day Pamphlets

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Latter-Day Pamphlets is a series of polemical essays by Thomas Carlyle, published in 1850, in which he fiercely criticizes the social, political, and religious conditions of Victorian England.

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instanceOf book
series of essays
author Thomas Carlyle
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticizes democracy
laissez-faire economics
parliamentary government
philanthropy
political conditions of Victorian England
religious conditions of Victorian England
social conditions of Victorian England
the press
firstPublicationLocation London, England
surface form: London
form pamphlet series
genre polemical essays
political writing
hasPart Downing Street
Hudson’s Statue
Jesuitism
Model Prisons
Parliaments and Talkings
Stump-Orator
The New Downing Street
New Era
surface form: The New Era

The Present Time
hasSubject economics
ethics
government
politics
religion
social criticism
influencedBy Industrial Revolution
political turmoil of 1848
language English
literaryMovement Victorian literature
literaryPeriod Victorian era
mainTheme critique of modernity
leadership and hero-worship
social order and authority
notableFor attack on contemporary liberalism
controversial tone
publicationDecade 1850s
publicationYear 1850
publisher Chapman and Hall
relatedWork On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Past and Present
setInPeriod Victorian era
surface form: Victorian England
timeOfWriting late 1840s
writtenBy Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle notableWork Latter-Day Pamphlets