Edited by Paul E. Kerry; Albert D. Pionke and Megan Dent - Contributions by Mark Allison; Laura Beer; Michael Bentley; Laura H. Clarke; Elizabeth J. Deis; Megan Dent; Lowell T. Frye; Stephanie Hicks; Marylu Hill; Ulrike I. Hill; Ralph Jessop; Paul E. Kerr

Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Marylu Hill
List of Figures
Introduction: Carlyle's Networks of Influence
Albert D. Pionke

Section One: Oaks and Acorns
Thomas Carlyle, Orestes Brownson, and the Laboring Classes
Chris R. Vanden Bossche
Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and History: On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History and Representative Men through the "Lens" of Photography
Stephanie Hicks
The Object as Symbol: Carlyle's Symbolic Lexicon and Robert Browning's Theory of the Objective Poet
Laura Clarke
Thomas Carlyle's Influence on George Meredith: Heroes and Hero-Worship in Beauchamp's Career and Lord Ormont and His Aminta
Elizabeth J. Deis
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope and the Aesthetic Male Body: A Pre-Raphaelite Response to Ideas of Victorian Manliness
Madeleine Emerald Thiele
The 'Temporary Figure (Zeitbild)' of the Author in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Mathilde Blind's Tarantella: A Romance
Ulrike I. Hill

Section Two: Orders of Tradition
Shakespearean Negotiations: Carlyle, Emerson, and the Ambiguities of Transatlantic Influence
Tim Sommer
On Pilgrimage's Form in Modern Times: Narrative Propulsion, Bodily Spaces, and Contested Spiritual Landscapes in Carlyle's Life of John Sterling
Laura Judd Beer
Subverting Modernity in Carlyle's "Signs of the Times" and Past and Present
Ralph Jessop
The Counter-Enlightenments of Thomas Carlyle
B. W. Young
"Conditioning" as Influence: the Via Goethe and Case of Carlyle
Paul E. Kerry
"The mysteries of predisposition": Carlyle, Disraeli, Goethe, and Religious Influence
Megan Dent
Carlyle in Comparative Perspective
Michael Bentley

Section Three: Reputational Networks
The Mustard Seed of British Socialism: Carlyle, Robert Owen, and "Infallible Influence"
Mark Allison
Influence as Palimpsest: Carlyle, Mill, Sterling
Albert D. Pionke
G. K. Chesterton and the "Shaggy Old Malcontent": Re-reading Thomas Carlyle on the Threshold of the Twentieth Century
Lowell T. Frye
Finnegans Wake as "Sartor's Risorted" or Sartor Retold: Recovering the Hidden Carlyle in Joyce
Kazuo Yokouchi
Re-Fashioning Carlyle: Sartor Resartus, Dress Studies, and the Monstrous
John M. Ulrich

Bibliography
Index
List of Contributors