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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... literature and culture , which initiate his Scottish and English reputation . German Ro- mance published in four volumes . Unsuccessful efforts to find suitable employment . Carlyles move to Craigenputtoch , a remote farm near Dunscore ...
... literature and culture , which initiate his Scottish and English reputation . German Ro- mance published in four volumes . Unsuccessful efforts to find suitable employment . Carlyles move to Craigenputtoch , a remote farm near Dunscore ...
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... literature beginning in May . The French Revolution is published . Course of twelve lectures on European literature . Sartor Resartus is published in book form in London . With Emerson's help , Critical and Miscellaneous Essays is pub ...
... literature beginning in May . The French Revolution is published . Course of twelve lectures on European literature . Sartor Resartus is published in book form in London . With Emerson's help , Critical and Miscellaneous Essays is pub ...
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... literature , politics , and history.1 Carlyle's explanation was that he was " driven into that Lecture- room " by the " bayonets of Necessity . " 2 In 1837 , when he first began to lecture , he fully expected to have to quit a literary ...
... literature , politics , and history.1 Carlyle's explanation was that he was " driven into that Lecture- room " by the " bayonets of Necessity . " 2 In 1837 , when he first began to lecture , he fully expected to have to quit a literary ...
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... literature , 15 he embarked on his first experiment . 11 He had been invited by Emerson to lecture in America , but when Harriet Martineau and several others sought among their friends two hundred subscribers willing to pay a guinea ...
... literature , 15 he embarked on his first experiment . 11 He had been invited by Emerson to lecture in America , but when Harriet Martineau and several others sought among their friends two hundred subscribers willing to pay a guinea ...
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... Literature , on European Literature , on the 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 ...
... Literature , on European Literature , on the 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 ...
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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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