Signs of Their Times: History, Labor, and the Body in Cobbett, Carlyle, and Disraeli,9780821414019

Signs of Their Times: History, Labor, and the Body in Cobbett, Carlyle, and Disraeli

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ISBN13: 9780821414019
ISBN10: 0821414011
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-12-01
Publisher(s): Ohio Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Reading the Signs of the Times 1(12)
Terms and Conditions
The Reformation of History and William Cobbett's
13(21)
A History of the Protestant ``Reformation''
William Cobbett and the (Un) Healthy Body
34(24)
Matter, Metaphor, and the Man
``A labor of death and a labor against death''
58(23)
The Writing of History in Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present
Resisting the Abyss:
81(25)
The Reinscription of Labor in Carlyle's Past and Present
The ``Recovery'' of the Past
106(33)
History and (Self-) Representation in Benjamin Disraeli's Sybil; or, The Two Nations
``With the shuttle and spindle we may redeem our race''
139(30)
Labor Redemption, and the Working-Class Body in Disraeli's Sybil
Conclusion: ``But what are we to do?'' 169(4)
Notes 173(34)
Works Cited 207(8)
Index 215

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