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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... Goethe's Wilhelm Meister ( 1824 ) and expands an article on Schiller into The Life of Schiller ( 1825 ) . Beginning in June , makes an extended visit to London . A guest of the Buller family and the Irving circle , he is intro- duced to ...
... Goethe's Wilhelm Meister ( 1824 ) and expands an article on Schiller into The Life of Schiller ( 1825 ) . Beginning in June , makes an extended visit to London . A guest of the Buller family and the Irving circle , he is intro- duced to ...
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... Goethe . Marries Jane Baillie Welsh on October 17. Begins an auto- biographical bildungsroman , the unfinished Wotton Reinfred . Francis Jeffrey , editor of the Edinburgh Review , becomes his patron and family friend . Jeffrey publishes ...
... Goethe . Marries Jane Baillie Welsh on October 17. Begins an auto- biographical bildungsroman , the unfinished Wotton Reinfred . Francis Jeffrey , editor of the Edinburgh Review , becomes his patron and family friend . Jeffrey publishes ...
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... Goethe , and Frederick the Great . Completes the writing of the first two volumes of Frederick the Great . 1857-58 Collected Works ( the Uniform Edition ) published in sixteen volumes . 1858 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 First two volumes of ...
... Goethe , and Frederick the Great . Completes the writing of the first two volumes of Frederick the Great . 1857-58 Collected Works ( the Uniform Edition ) published in sixteen volumes . 1858 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 First two volumes of ...
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... Goethe " ( 1828 ) , " Schiller " ( 1831 ) , and Sartor Resartus ( 1833 ) , the " leading principle of all his later social writing . " 97 The subject was also a major Victo- rian preoccupation . Though Carlyle's intensity was his own ...
... Goethe " ( 1828 ) , " Schiller " ( 1831 ) , and Sartor Resartus ( 1833 ) , the " leading principle of all his later social writing . " 97 The subject was also a major Victo- rian preoccupation . Though Carlyle's intensity was his own ...
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... Goethe seems to have been concerned mainly with Muhammad's historical achievement . Carlyle alone was interested in the man , the human person , grappling with the problems of human life and destiny that are common to all men . " That ...
... Goethe seems to have been concerned mainly with Muhammad's historical achievement . Carlyle alone was interested in the man , the human person , grappling with the problems of human life and destiny that are common to all men . " That ...
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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