Rethinking the Marriage Plot: Anti-Self-Consciousness and the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle and Thomas Carlyle

Codr explores how Jane Baillie Welsh and Thomas Carlyle described the state of mutual self-abandon in their love letters in order to shed light on what John Stuart Mill later termed "Carlyle's theory of anti-self-consciousness," the metaphysical life philosophy delineated in two of th...

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Published in:Modern philology 2018-08, Vol.116 (1), p.45-67
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