person
Henry Thomas Buckle
Buckle
also: Бокль
English historian (1821-1862), author of the influential History of Civilization in England. Named here as the mock-source of an aphorism, the mismatch between his scholarly reputation and the trivial target being the joke.
Reading notes
- The Man in a Case §11 Buckles
The English historian Henry Thomas Buckle, named here alongside Turgenev and Shchedrin as further evidence of the teachers' reading -- reading that did nothing to stop them submitting to Belikov.
- Philosophical Definitions of Life §5 Buckle
Henry Thomas Buckle, the English historian famous for his History of Civilization in England -- named as the supposed author of an aphorism about Prince Meshchersky, an absurd mismatch of a serious scholar and a petty target.
- The Name-Day Party §106 Buckles
Henry Thomas Buckle (1821-1862), English historian and author of the influential History of Civilization in England; Pyotr Dmitrich waves off both Buckle and Proudhon as beyond his competence, deflecting to his wife's education at the courses instead.
- Something Serious §4 Buckle
Henry Thomas Buckle (1821-1862), English historian, author of History of Civilization in England. Along with Proudhon, a byword for serious, faintly progressive reading -- comically mismatched with the genre of a schoolboy's love letter.
- To Al. P. Chekhov, 17–18 April 1883. Moscow. §8 Buckle
Henry Thomas Buckle, English historian known for applying scientific and statistical method to history; cited (and disputed) here on women's supposed intellectual character.