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 xxii
... mind he was " inclined to experiment , " 10 and felt that , were he " once girded up for it , " lecturing had a " far greater capability in it " than book writing . Despite his determination , he felt " a kind of shudder " through his ...
... mind he was " inclined to experiment , " 10 and felt that , were he " once girded up for it , " lecturing had a " far greater capability in it " than book writing . Despite his determination , he felt " a kind of shudder " through his ...
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... mind . On February 24 , 1840 , he wrote to his mother , " I think I shall lecture this year too , to my old audience ! I seem to have a kind of hold of a subject ; but it is not yet got into any shape , " and to his brother John , three ...
... mind . On February 24 , 1840 , he wrote to his mother , " I think I shall lecture this year too , to my old audience ! I seem to have a kind of hold of a subject ; but it is not yet got into any shape , " and to his brother John , three ...
Page xxvii
... mind did little to facilitate their actual production . During the third week of March he was still " revolving and tumbling about among my projected ' Lectures , ' " which remained " dim and horrible ; but I suppose I shall get them ...
... mind did little to facilitate their actual production . During the third week of March he was still " revolving and tumbling about among my projected ' Lectures , ' " which remained " dim and horrible ; but I suppose I shall get them ...
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... Mind , 305 , 310 ; also Thatcher , Nietzsche in England , 12 . 102 Lehman , Carlyle's Theory of the Hero , 132 ; but see Harrison , Studies in Early Victorian Literature , 55 . 103 Collingwood , Idea of History , 144 . Circumstances ...
... Mind , 305 , 310 ; also Thatcher , Nietzsche in England , 12 . 102 Lehman , Carlyle's Theory of the Hero , 132 ; but see Harrison , Studies in Early Victorian Literature , 55 . 103 Collingwood , Idea of History , 144 . Circumstances ...
Page xxxv
... mind and character , whom Provi- dence sent among them at favoured epochs . " This was the " principle which he proposed to illustrate in . . . ' Heroes and Hero - Worship . ' " 107 Since criticism of On Heroes has often been ...
... mind and character , whom Provi- dence sent among them at favoured epochs . " This was the " principle which he proposed to illustrate in . . . ' Heroes and Hero - Worship . ' " 107 Since criticism of On Heroes has often been ...
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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