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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... English letters , " 1 reliable editions of his work , providing both an accurate text based on modern bibliographical principles and full explanatory annotation , have not been readily available . Even the standard edition , the ...
... English letters , " 1 reliable editions of his work , providing both an accurate text based on modern bibliographical principles and full explanatory annotation , have not been readily available . Even the standard edition , the ...
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... English , UC Santa Cruz ; Professor I. B. Cowan of the De- partment of Scottish History , University of Glasgow ; Professor Scott Cook of the Department of Philosophy , San Jose State University ; Professor Catherine Kerrigan of the ...
... English , UC Santa Cruz ; Professor I. B. Cowan of the De- partment of Scottish History , University of Glasgow ; Professor Scott Cook of the Department of Philosophy , San Jose State University ; Professor Catherine Kerrigan of the ...
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... English . We have needed and received the help of many libraries and librar- ians , above all University Archivist Rita B. Bottoms and her staff , Carol Champion , Paul S. Stubbs , Irene Crawley Berry , and Paul Machlis of Special ...
... English . We have needed and received the help of many libraries and librar- ians , above all University Archivist Rita B. Bottoms and her staff , Carol Champion , Paul S. Stubbs , Irene Crawley Berry , and Paul Machlis of Special ...
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... English reputation . German Ro- mance published in four volumes . Unsuccessful efforts to find suitable employment . Carlyles move to Craigenputtoch , a remote farm near Dunscore . 1828-29 Publishes " Burns " and " Signs of the Times ...
... English reputation . German Ro- mance published in four volumes . Unsuccessful efforts to find suitable employment . Carlyles move to Craigenputtoch , a remote farm near Dunscore . 1828-29 Publishes " Burns " and " Signs of the Times ...
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... English policies substantially responsible for the condition of Ireland . Writes his Reminiscences of My Irish Journey , pub- lished posthumously in 1882. Anger and despair about politi- cal and cultural conditions in Britain expressed ...
... English policies substantially responsible for the condition of Ireland . Writes his Reminiscences of My Irish Journey , pub- lished posthumously in 1882. Anger and despair about politi- cal and cultural conditions in Britain expressed ...
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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