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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... Beginning in June , makes an extended visit to London . A guest of the Buller family and the Irving circle , he is intro- duced to London literary society , including Coleridge and Charles Lamb . 1825 1826 1827 1828 Translates various ...
... Beginning in June , makes an extended visit to London . A guest of the Buller family and the Irving circle , he is intro- duced to London literary society , including Coleridge and Charles Lamb . 1825 1826 1827 1828 Translates various ...
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... beginning of a lifelong friendship . Carlyle gives thought to emigrating to America . The Carlyles move to 24 Cheyne Row , London , their resi- dence for the remainder of their lives . Edward Irving dies . In September , Carlyle begins ...
... beginning of a lifelong friendship . Carlyle gives thought to emigrating to America . The Carlyles move to 24 Cheyne Row , London , their resi- dence for the remainder of their lives . Edward Irving dies . In September , Carlyle begins ...
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... 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- lished in ...
... 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- lished in ...
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Thomas Carlyle. By ignoring the prophets of Israel and Greece , and by beginning his historical survey with Odin , a figure lying in mythological prehis- tory , Carlyle had clearly abandoned any strictly calibrated chronologi- cal scheme ...
Thomas Carlyle. By ignoring the prophets of Israel and Greece , and by beginning his historical survey with Odin , a figure lying in mythological prehis- tory , Carlyle had clearly abandoned any strictly calibrated chronologi- cal scheme ...
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... beginnings of the paralysis that had penetrated his own time . Earlier heroes contended with adversities enough . The banished Locke wrote his Essay Concerning Human Understanding in a Dutch garret , Milton was impoverished and ...
... beginnings of the paralysis that had penetrated his own time . Earlier heroes contended with adversities enough . The banished Locke wrote his Essay Concerning Human Understanding in a Dutch garret , Milton was impoverished and ...
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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