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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... 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 , " lecturing had a " far greater capability in it " than book writing . Despite his ...
... 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 , " lecturing had a " far greater capability in it " than book writing . Despite his ...
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... struggle . As he said of the fourth , it had been finished , " tho ' not till after the toughest fight . " 95 By the first week in September the writing was completed and ready " for Print- ing , for Combustion , or whatever else . Most ...
... struggle . As he said of the fourth , it had been finished , " tho ' not till after the toughest fight . " 95 By the first week in September the writing was completed and ready " for Print- ing , for Combustion , or whatever else . Most ...
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... struggles . After completing his lectures on heroes , Carlyle complained that none could " unwrap the baleful Nessus shirt of perpetual pain and isolation in which I am . . . swathed , " recalling his earlier and more hopeful vow to ...
... struggles . After completing his lectures on heroes , Carlyle complained that none could " unwrap the baleful Nessus shirt of perpetual pain and isolation in which I am . . . swathed , " recalling his earlier and more hopeful vow to ...
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... struggle to bring his words into being out of chaos . His models serve to define his role as he finds himself caught in the act of defining theirs . Their past struggles with surrounding events and howling inner confusion correspond to ...
... struggle to bring his words into being out of chaos . His models serve to define his role as he finds himself caught in the act of defining theirs . Their past struggles with surrounding events and howling inner confusion correspond to ...
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... struggling ! As for manufacture , " he contemptuously observes , " that is a different matter . " 238 IX . HISTORY AND HERO - WORSHIP The most frequent critical issues raised by On Heroes are the problem of structure presented by the ...
... struggling ! As for manufacture , " he contemptuously observes , " that is a different matter . " 238 IX . HISTORY AND HERO - WORSHIP The most frequent critical issues raised by On Heroes are the problem of structure presented by the ...
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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