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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... published 1896-99 , is unsatisfactory : it is without annotation and textually inaccurate.2 This injustice , both to Carlyle and his readers , the editors of the Strouse Carlyle Edition seek to redress . To establish an accurate text ...
... published 1896-99 , is unsatisfactory : it is without annotation and textually inaccurate.2 This injustice , both to Carlyle and his readers , the editors of the Strouse Carlyle Edition seek to redress . To establish an accurate text ...
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... publish the Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle . Carlyle biographer Fred Kaplan of the City University of New York prepared the Chro- nology of Carlyle's Life that appears on pp . xv - xix , and Carlyle bib- liographer ...
... publish the Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle . Carlyle biographer Fred Kaplan of the City University of New York prepared the Chro- nology of Carlyle's Life that appears on pp . xv - xix , and Carlyle bib- liographer ...
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... published in four volumes . Unsuccessful efforts to find suitable employment . Carlyles move to Craigenputtoch , a remote farm near Dunscore . 1828-29 Publishes " Burns " and " Signs of the Times " in the Edinburgh Review and articles ...
... published in four volumes . Unsuccessful efforts to find suitable employment . Carlyles move to Craigenputtoch , a remote farm near Dunscore . 1828-29 Publishes " Burns " and " Signs of the Times " in the Edinburgh Review and articles ...
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... published . Course of twelve lectures on European literature . Sartor Resartus is published in book form in London . With Emerson's help , Critical and Miscellaneous Essays is pub- lished in Boston . Six lectures on the revolutions of ...
... published . Course of twelve lectures on European literature . Sartor Resartus is published in book form in London . With Emerson's help , Critical and Miscellaneous Essays is pub- lished in Boston . Six lectures on the revolutions of ...
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... published in sixteen volumes . 1858 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 First two volumes of Frederick the Great published . In late summer , makes a second visit to Germany to complete a survey of sites associated with Frederick . Jane Carlyle's ...
... published in sixteen volumes . 1858 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 First two volumes of Frederick the Great published . In late summer , makes a second visit to Germany to complete a survey of sites associated with Frederick . Jane Carlyle's ...
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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