Misogyny and Hero Worship: Carlyle's Representation of Men and Women in the French Revolution. - Nineteenth-Century Prose

Misogyny and Hero Worship: Carlyle's Representation of Men and Women in the French Revolution.

By Nineteenth-Century Prose

  • Release Date: 1999-09-22
  • Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines

Description

When Thomas Carlyle depicts the political struggle in The French Revolution, he is writing more than a "history." His perspective in this work is colored by his Victorian ideology and a traditional political view of men and women, magnified by his own psychological development, which reveres men as his conception of a "hero" and disparages women as objects. **********