Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Self-consciousness" in English language version.
Thomas Carlyle disagreed with the maudlin self- consciousness of British Romanticism.
'[...] Carlyle's work-ethic and his concomitant insistence on self-forgetfulness were only the most extreme of Victorian reactions to an immobilizing self-consciousness. [...] Carlyle's principle of anti-self-consciousness was one of the discoveries which led him out of his mental crisis.'
