ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Past and Present is a book by Thomas Carlyle. It was published in April 1843 in England and the following month in the United States. It combines medieval history with criticism of 19th-century British society. Carlyle wrote it in seven weeks as a respite from the harassing labor of writing Cromwell.

Detailed explanation-2: -Past and Present is a book by Thomas Carlyle. It was published in April 1843 in England and the following month in the United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thomas Carlyle’s Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the author described as a ‘miraculous thunder-voice, from out of the centre of the world.

Detailed explanation-4: -Carlyle’s corpus spans the genres of “criticism, biography, history, politics, poetry, and religion.” His innovative writing style, known as Carlylese, greatly influenced Victorian literature and anticipated techniques of postmodern literature.