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Preface ix -- I Carlyle On Literature: Conflicting Views 3 -- II Tracing The Conflict To Its Source 39 -- III Carlyle's Religious Development From Burgher Faith To "Everlasting No" 61 -- German Literature And Transcendental Faith 72 -- IV Puritan Reaction 117 -- V Carlyle On Literature : Transcendental Faith Versus Puritan Temper 157 -- VI The Faltering Victorian Vision 201 -- Appendix : Emerson and Carlyle 209 -- Selected Bibliography 215 -- Index 223 -- VII