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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Page xvi
... 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 to write The French Revolution . In March he ...
... 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 to write The French Revolution . In March he ...
Page xvii
... Gives seven public lectures on German 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 ...
... Gives seven public lectures on German 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 ...
Page xix
... gives Froude most of the remaining documents . His right hand becomes palsied , making it difficult for him to write . He dictates Early Kings of Norway ( 1875 ) , but finds dicta- tion an unsatisfactory way of writing . Carlyle's ...
... gives Froude most of the remaining documents . His right hand becomes palsied , making it difficult for him to write . He dictates Early Kings of Norway ( 1875 ) , but finds dicta- tion an unsatisfactory way of writing . Carlyle's ...
Page xxvii
... give ' On Heroes and Hero - Worship ' — from Odin to Robf Burns ! " 57 or as he wrote facetiously to Henrietta Stanley , " I seem to be fixed to lecture : ' on Heroes ' — from the Creation down- wards ! ' Sport to you but death to us ...
... give ' On Heroes and Hero - Worship ' — from Odin to Robf Burns ! " 57 or as he wrote facetiously to Henrietta Stanley , " I seem to be fixed to lecture : ' on Heroes ' — from the Creation down- wards ! ' Sport to you but death to us ...
Page xxxi
... give light to the fashionable classes : this is enough of times ! " 78 He resolved instead to remain in the brick Babylon of London and to " write down " the lectures.79 Accordingly , he spent the summer of 1840 transcribing his notes ...
... give light to the fashionable classes : this is enough of times ! " 78 He resolved instead to remain in the brick Babylon of London and to " write down " the lectures.79 Accordingly , he spent the summer of 1840 transcribing his notes ...
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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