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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... Parliament . " Except for a couple of books , the popular historians of the century followed the Royalist party line , whether the fabrications of James Heath's Ilagellum ( 1663 ) or the rolling periods of the first Earl of Clarendon's ...
... Parliament . " Except for a couple of books , the popular historians of the century followed the Royalist party line , whether the fabrications of James Heath's Ilagellum ( 1663 ) or the rolling periods of the first Earl of Clarendon's ...
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... Parliament or combina- tion of Parliaments , can dethrone ! " 188 Luther's role in the Reforma- tion required a " kingly faculty , " 189 and Knox maintained a " virtual Presidency and Sovereignty " over Scotland.190 In the Carlylean ...
... Parliament or combina- tion of Parliaments , can dethrone ! " 188 Luther's role in the Reforma- tion required a " kingly faculty , " 189 and Knox maintained a " virtual Presidency and Sovereignty " over Scotland.190 In the Carlylean ...
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... Parliament , the incondite jumble of Muhammad's Qur'an , the taci- 218 Pamphlets , 255 . 219 Taylor , Englishmen , 23 . 220 Fox , Memories , 105 ; see above , p . xxx . 221 On Heroes , 209 . turn and rugged simplicity of the speech of ...
... Parliament , the incondite jumble of Muhammad's Qur'an , the taci- 218 Pamphlets , 255 . 219 Taylor , Englishmen , 23 . 220 Fox , Memories , 105 ; see above , p . xxx . 221 On Heroes , 209 . turn and rugged simplicity of the speech of ...
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... Parliament , " I never did affect , nor do , nor I hope shall " propose " to have played the 222 See Murray Baumgarten , " Revolution as Context , ” 188-89 . 223 1 Corinthians 1:17 . 224 On Heroes , 204 . 225 Cromwell 3 : 167 . Orator ...
... Parliament , " I never did affect , nor do , nor I hope shall " propose " to have played the 222 See Murray Baumgarten , " Revolution as Context , ” 188-89 . 223 1 Corinthians 1:17 . 224 On Heroes , 204 . 225 Cromwell 3 : 167 . Orator ...
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... Parliamentary History of the French Revolution ” ( 1837 ) , Essays 4 : 3 . 237 On Heroes , 201 . 238 " Sir Walter Scott " ( 1838 ) , Essays 4:80 . 239 On Heroes , 204 . smashes the general chronological pattern , " leading to the ...
... Parliamentary History of the French Revolution ” ( 1837 ) , Essays 4 : 3 . 237 On Heroes , 201 . 238 " Sir Walter Scott " ( 1838 ) , Essays 4:80 . 239 On Heroes , 204 . smashes the general chronological pattern , " leading to the ...
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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