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From: Canadian Journal of History
Date: 19931201
Author:Stockdale, William H.

Early in the nineteenth century, Thomas Carlyle thought he saw in the "death throes" of the "whirlwind" of events the emergence of "tones" of a more "melodious birthsong" (Sartor Resartus, 1834). By the 1860s the Victorians were more certain that their age was truly a "rebirth." Professor Fraser has used this metaphor of rebirth or "resurrection" (to use Michelet's phrase) to examine the Victorians! appropriation of the Renaissance, itself a period of "rebirth," for much of the substance and forms of their own artistic and literary productions. Just as the authors and artists of ...

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