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
... once thrown into it ; that in fact it would develope several things in me , which struggle violently for develope- » 9 With this in mind he was " inclined to experiment , " 10 and felt that , were he " once girded up for it ...
... once thrown into it ; that in fact it would develope several things in me , which struggle violently for develope- » 9 With this in mind he was " inclined to experiment , " 10 and felt that , were he " once girded up for it ...
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... once expenses had been deducted.29 It may seem now a modest sum , but to Carlyle at that time it offered financial safety . Better still , another course of lectures was soon proposed that promised to yield at least as much , and the ...
... once expenses had been deducted.29 It may seem now a modest sum , but to Carlyle at that time it offered financial safety . Better still , another course of lectures was soon proposed that promised to yield at least as much , and the ...
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... once these unfortunate ' Heroes ' are out of me . " 59 " I scribble away at my Lectures ; refuse all invitations whatsoever . " 60 Throughout the month he wrote furiously . Daily " I ... splash down ( literally as fas [ t ] as my pen ...
... once these unfortunate ' Heroes ' are out of me . " 59 " I scribble away at my Lectures ; refuse all invitations whatsoever . " 60 Throughout the month he wrote furiously . Daily " I ... splash down ( literally as fas [ t ] as my pen ...
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... once agreed with popular opinion : " The people seem agreed , and I partly think so too , that it was my best course of Lectures . " 75 In the " fire of the moment " he " all but decided on setting out for America . . . and preaching ...
... once agreed with popular opinion : " The people seem agreed , and I partly think so too , that it was my best course of Lectures . " 75 In the " fire of the moment " he " all but decided on setting out for America . . . and preaching ...
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Thomas Carlyle. certainty.77 Only financial compulsion could drive him once more onto the platform . " Four times spitted on the spear's point like a Surinam fire - fly to give light to the fashionable classes : this is enough of times ...
Thomas Carlyle. certainty.77 Only financial compulsion could drive him once more onto the platform . " Four times spitted on the spear's point like a Surinam fire - fly to give light to the fashionable classes : this is enough of times ...
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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