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 xxvii
... mean to shew that ' Hero - worship never ceases , ' that it is at bottom the main or only kind of worship . " 52 The rapidity with which the plan for the lectures took shape in Carlyle's mind did little to facilitate their actual ...
... mean to shew that ' Hero - worship never ceases , ' that it is at bottom the main or only kind of worship . " 52 The rapidity with which the plan for the lectures took shape in Carlyle's mind did little to facilitate their actual ...
Page xxxii
... means of it . " 90 He continued to fret that the lectures seemed " absolutely worth nothing at all , " 91 that they were a " wearisome triviality . . . yet toilsome to produce , which I could like to throw into the fire ! " Nothing , he ...
... means of it . " 90 He continued to fret that the lectures seemed " absolutely worth nothing at all , " 91 that they were a " wearisome triviality . . . yet toilsome to produce , which I could like to throw into the fire ! " Nothing , he ...
Page xxxiv
... means of his chosen historical models he attempted to reshape the public perception of Muhammad , Cromwell , and Knox , while he sought a deeper and more sympathetic understanding of Norse mythology and the figures of Dante and Burns ...
... means of his chosen historical models he attempted to reshape the public perception of Muhammad , Cromwell , and Knox , while he sought a deeper and more sympathetic understanding of Norse mythology and the figures of Dante and Burns ...
Page xxxviii
... means at his disposal to rectify the misleading effect of " this poor Icon . " 131 He not only offered his own portrait of Knox in On Heroes , a verbal picture that presented a more humane and amiable Knox than that supplied by ...
... means at his disposal to rectify the misleading effect of " this poor Icon . " 131 He not only offered his own portrait of Knox in On Heroes , a verbal picture that presented a more humane and amiable Knox than that supplied by ...
Page xliv
... means of claiming the attention of posterity . The best book on the Puritan side , as Macaulay noted , is probably " the charming narrative of Mrs. Hutchinson , " but ranged against it are " the most authoritative and the most popular ...
... means of claiming the attention of posterity . The best book on the Puritan side , as Macaulay noted , is probably " the charming narrative of Mrs. Hutchinson , " but ranged against it are " the most authoritative and the most popular ...
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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