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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... John's help , he translates Legendre's Elements of Geometry . Translates 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 ...
... John's help , he translates Legendre's Elements of Geometry . Translates 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 ...
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... John Stuart Mill , and unsuccessfully tries to find a publisher for Sartor Resartus . " Characteristics " published ... John Stuart Mill . Meets Southey and Wordsworth , and becomes friends 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 with John ...
... John Stuart Mill , and unsuccessfully tries to find a publisher for Sartor Resartus . " Characteristics " published ... John Stuart Mill . Meets Southey and Wordsworth , and becomes friends 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 with John ...
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Thomas Carlyle. 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 with John Sterling . In the next five years his circle of London friends expands to include Leigh Hunt , Harriet Martineau , Erasmus Darwin , Monckton Milnes , John Forster , Dickens ...
Thomas Carlyle. 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 with John Sterling . In the next five years his circle of London friends expands to include Leigh Hunt , Harriet Martineau , Erasmus Darwin , Monckton Milnes , John Forster , Dickens ...
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... John Tyndall . Life of John Sterling . In the fall , he visits Paris , accompanied by Robert and Elizabeth Browning . Begins to consider Frederick the Great as a subject for a biography . In the late summer , travels to Germany for the ...
... John Tyndall . Life of John Sterling . In the fall , he visits Paris , accompanied by Robert and Elizabeth Browning . Begins to consider Frederick the Great as a subject for a biography . In the late summer , travels to Germany for the ...
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... John Knox and dictates an essay , “ Portraits of John Knox " ( 1875 ) . 1875 His eightieth birthday in December is the occasion for an international celebration , with gifts , honorary degrees , tes- timonial letters , and an engraved ...
... John Knox and dictates an essay , “ Portraits of John Knox " ( 1875 ) . 1875 His eightieth birthday in December is the occasion for an international celebration , with gifts , honorary degrees , tes- timonial letters , and an engraved ...
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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