On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in HistoryUniversity of California Press, 1993 M06 7 - 622 pages In his 1840 lectures on heroes, Thomas Carlyle, Victorian essayist and social critic, championed the importance of the individual in history. Published the following year and eventually translated into fifteen languages, this imaginative work of history, comparative religion, and literature is the most influential statement of a man who came to be thought of as a secular prophet and the "undoubted head of English letters" (Emerson). His vivid portraits of Muhammad, Dante, Luther, Napoleon—just a few of the individuals Carlyle celebrated for changing the course of world history—made On Heroes a challenge to the anonymous social forces threatening to control life during the Industrial Revolution. In eight volumes, The Strouse Edition will provide the texts of Carlyle's major works edited for the first time to contemporary scholarly standards. For the general reader, its detailed introductions and annotations will offer insight into the author's thought and a reconstruction of the diverse and often arcane Carlylean sources. |
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... British Columbia Fred Kaplan Queens College , City University of New York Robert Oakman University of South Carolina Clyde de L. Ryals Duke University Anne Skabarnicki Royal Military College of Canada Rodger L. Tarr Illinois State ...
... British Columbia Fred Kaplan Queens College , City University of New York Robert Oakman University of South Carolina Clyde de L. Ryals Duke University Anne Skabarnicki Royal Military College of Canada Rodger L. Tarr Illinois State ...
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... British Columbia for a research grant award in 1986 , and the Work Study Programme of the Provincial Government . Our work has been assisted by the genuine collaboration of the members of the Editorial Board and the Advisory Board , who ...
... British Columbia for a research grant award in 1986 , and the Work Study Programme of the Provincial Government . Our work has been assisted by the genuine collaboration of the members of the Editorial Board and the Advisory Board , who ...
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... British Columbia , the University of Michigan Libraries , the Bibliotheque Nationale du Quebec , the National Trust , Carlyle House , the British Museum , the National Portrait Gallery , the Uni- versity Library Cambridge , and the ...
... British Columbia , the University of Michigan Libraries , the Bibliotheque Nationale du Quebec , the National Trust , Carlyle House , the British Museum , the National Portrait Gallery , the Uni- versity Library Cambridge , and the ...
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... British Columbia Computing Centre , and at UC Santa Cruz Daniel Wenger , comput- ing director of the Division of Humanities , and the staff of Computer and Telecommunications Services , especially Assistant Vice Chancel- lor Alan ...
... British Columbia Computing Centre , and at UC Santa Cruz Daniel Wenger , comput- ing director of the Division of Humanities , and the staff of Computer and Telecommunications Services , especially Assistant Vice Chancel- lor Alan ...
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... British Museum , which led to the publication in 1845 of Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches , the problem remained the same he had set himself in the lectures , the fashioning of a true portrait of the Protector free from historical ...
... British Museum , which led to the publication in 1845 of Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches , the problem remained the same he had set himself in the lectures , the fashioning of a true portrait of the Protector free from historical ...
Contents
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Note on the Text | lxxxi |
On Heroes HeroWorship and the Heroic in History | 1 |
Notes | 227 |
Works Cited | 393 |
Textual Apparatus | 419 |
Index | 487 |
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