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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... French Revolution . In March he is forced to begin The French Revolution again when the only copy of the manuscript ( one - third completed ) is accidentally destroyed while in the keeping of John Stuart Mill . Meets Southey and ...
... French Revolution . In March he is forced to begin The French Revolution again when the only copy of the manuscript ( one - third completed ) is accidentally destroyed while in the keeping of John Stuart Mill . Meets Southey and ...
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... French Revolution is published . Course of twelve lectures on European literature . Sartor Resartus is published in ... revolutions of modern Europe . " On Chartism " published . Plays a formative role in the creation of the London ...
... French Revolution is published . Course of twelve lectures on European literature . Sartor Resartus is published in ... revolutions of modern Europe . " On Chartism " published . Plays a formative role in the creation of the London ...
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... French Revolution was finished , no immediate financial return could be expected from it , and it was only by ... Revolutions of Modern Europe , " six lectures , unpublished ( but see Shepherd , Memoirs of Carlyle 1 : 197-214 for reports ...
... French Revolution was finished , no immediate financial return could be expected from it , and it was only by ... Revolutions of Modern Europe , " six lectures , unpublished ( but see Shepherd , Memoirs of Carlyle 1 : 197-214 for reports ...
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... French Revolution , on Things in General ! " As he followed the world's advice , he felt the lack of three things : " I want knowledge , of my audience , of myself ; I want impudence , I want health . " 19 He remained diffident rather ...
... French Revolution , on Things in General ! " As he followed the world's advice , he felt the lack of three things : " I want knowledge , of my audience , of myself ; I want impudence , I want health . " 19 He remained diffident rather ...
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... French Revolution , " " 84 or as Frederic Harrison said , roll forth " Latter - Day Pamphlets by the hour together in the very words , with all the nicknames , expletives , and ebullient tropes that were so familiar to us in print ...
... French Revolution , " " 84 or as Frederic Harrison said , roll forth " Latter - Day Pamphlets by the hour together in the very words , with all the nicknames , expletives , and ebullient tropes that were so familiar to us in print ...
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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