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 xlvii
... noble , the pure and great , in all times and places . Neither does he grow obsolete , as the other does . . . . Dante , one calculates , may long survive Mahomet . " 182 Carlyle stresses the durability and the universality of art , for ...
... noble , the pure and great , in all times and places . Neither does he grow obsolete , as the other does . . . . Dante , one calculates , may long survive Mahomet . " 182 Carlyle stresses the durability and the universality of art , for ...
Page lx
... noble circle of Necessity " and that all " Heroic Action is paralysed . However , even the arid soil of the eighteenth century could not 258 On Heroes , 47 . 259 On Heroes , 40 . 260 On Heroes , 20 . 261 On Heroes , 159 . 262 On Heroes ...
... noble circle of Necessity " and that all " Heroic Action is paralysed . However , even the arid soil of the eighteenth century could not 258 On Heroes , 47 . 259 On Heroes , 40 . 260 On Heroes , 20 . 261 On Heroes , 159 . 262 On Heroes ...
Page lxi
... noble inborn loyalty and worship . " 269 The feeling for it might decline , might at- tach itself to unworthy objects , but hero - worship remained an unfail- ing fact of human experience and the basis of social organization ...
... noble inborn loyalty and worship . " 269 The feeling for it might decline , might at- tach itself to unworthy objects , but hero - worship remained an unfail- ing fact of human experience and the basis of social organization ...
Page lxvii
... noble things " came from individuals , " generally at first from some one individual . The honour and glory of the average man , " he wrote in terms reminiscent of Carlyle's hero - worshipper , " is that he is capable of following that ...
... noble things " came from individuals , " generally at first from some one individual . The honour and glory of the average man , " he wrote in terms reminiscent of Carlyle's hero - worshipper , " is that he is capable of following that ...
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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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