1. Philip M. Weinstein, The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce (Princeton, 1984), p. 82.
2. The quoted phrase is from John Burrow, ‘The Sense of the Past’, in The Victorians, edited by Laurence Lerner (London, 1978), pp. 120–38 (p. 122). According to
3. G. P. Gooch’s History and Historians in the Nineteenth Century (London, 1913), Green’s writing has ‘the living interest of a biography and the dramatic unity of an epic’ (p. 354). Green was both praised and criticized for his ‘imaginative faculty’ (p. 357).
4. Alice Chandler, A Dream of Order: The Medieval Ideal in Nineteenth-Century English Literature (London, 1971), pp. 131–3.
5. For a detailed account of Carlyle’s indebtedness to Comte, see Hill Shine, Carlyle and the Saint-Simonians: The Concept of Historical Periodicity (Baltimore, 1941) and