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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... Divine Comedy , is " physiognomical of the whole man , " 124 and in the third lecture he pauses over the supposed Giotto portrait , not only to recall its ap- pearance but also to wonder at its provenance and legitimacy125 ( see Plate 5 ) ...
... Divine Comedy , is " physiognomical of the whole man , " 124 and in the third lecture he pauses over the supposed Giotto portrait , not only to recall its ap- pearance but also to wonder at its provenance and legitimacy125 ( see Plate 5 ) ...
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... divine Spirit of that Religion in a new Mythus " appropriate to itself . 145 In selecting Odin as his representative divinity in place of Jesus , the " greatest of all Heroes , " 146 just as he chose 141 " Schiller " ( 1831 ) , Essays 2 ...
... divine Spirit of that Religion in a new Mythus " appropriate to itself . 145 In selecting Odin as his representative divinity in place of Jesus , the " greatest of all Heroes , " 146 just as he chose 141 " Schiller " ( 1831 ) , Essays 2 ...
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... Divine Comedy was Dante's splenetic attempt to put those in Hell " whom he could not be avenged upon on earth . " 174 Likewise he rejected the often repeated canard , originating with Leo X , that Luther's attack on indulgences derived ...
... Divine Comedy was Dante's splenetic attempt to put those in Hell " whom he could not be avenged upon on earth . " 174 Likewise he rejected the often repeated canard , originating with Leo X , that Luther's attack on indulgences derived ...
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... Divine Idea " 206 and to carry the prophetic torch as " the Fire- pillars in this dark pilgrimage of mankind . " 207 Upon the writer , if worthy , devolved by direct lineal descent the mantle of the prophet and the scepter of the ...
... Divine Idea " 206 and to carry the prophetic torch as " the Fire- pillars in this dark pilgrimage of mankind . " 207 Upon the writer , if worthy , devolved by direct lineal descent the mantle of the prophet and the scepter of the ...
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... divine hero by the divinely in- spired prophet represents a " second phasis of Hero - worship . " 245 This forward movement is deflected from time to time by historical counter- currents . As society advances and becomes more ...
... divine hero by the divinely in- spired prophet represents a " second phasis of Hero - worship . " 245 This forward movement is deflected from time to time by historical counter- currents . As society advances and becomes more ...
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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