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 xxvi
... perhaps be lecturing " for the last time , at least till I get some inward call to speak , " 46 but instead of retiring , he was in fact , with the series of lectures on heroes , about to advance to his greatest triumph on the public ...
... perhaps be lecturing " for the last time , at least till I get some inward call to speak , " 46 but instead of retiring , he was in fact , with the series of lectures on heroes , about to advance to his greatest triumph on the public ...
Page xxxi
... Perhaps he did speak " as graphically as his ' French Revolution , " " 84 or as Frederic Harrison said , roll forth " Latter - Day Pamphlets by the hour together in the very words , with all the nicknames , expletives , and ebullient ...
... Perhaps he did speak " as graphically as his ' French Revolution , " " 84 or as Frederic Harrison said , roll forth " Latter - Day Pamphlets by the hour together in the very words , with all the nicknames , expletives , and ebullient ...
Page xxxv
... perhaps wrongly , certainly intensely , that he inhabited an age that " denies the existence " and " the desirableness of great men . Shew our critics a great man , a Luther for example , they begin to what they call ' account ' for him ...
... perhaps wrongly , certainly intensely , that he inhabited an age that " denies the existence " and " the desirableness of great men . Shew our critics a great man , a Luther for example , they begin to what they call ' account ' for him ...
Page xlii
... perhaps more of Carlyle than 152 On Heroes , 39 . 153 On Heroes , 57 . 154 On Heroes , 38 . 99 155 Cited in Seigel , Critical Heritage , 180 . 156 Froude , Life in London 1 : 181 . 157 On Heroes , 95 . Muhammad . Yet in its essence ...
... perhaps more of Carlyle than 152 On Heroes , 39 . 153 On Heroes , 57 . 154 On Heroes , 38 . 99 155 Cited in Seigel , Critical Heritage , 180 . 156 Froude , Life in London 1 : 181 . 157 On Heroes , 95 . Muhammad . Yet in its essence ...
Page xliii
... perhaps the fourth time in my life , to see if it be possible to get any credible face - to - face acquaintance with our English Puritan period ; or whether it must be left forever a mere hearsay and echo to one ? " 162 As Carlyle noted ...
... perhaps the fourth time in my life , to see if it be possible to get any credible face - to - face acquaintance with our English Puritan period ; or whether it must be left forever a mere hearsay and echo to one ? " 162 As Carlyle noted ...
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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