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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... on the Negro Ques- tion , " published in Fraser's Magazine ; contemplates a work on the negative effects of democracy , materialism , and sexual permissiveness . 1850 1851 1852 1856 Publishes Latter - Day Pamphlets , CHRONOLOGY xvii.
... on the Negro Ques- tion , " published in Fraser's Magazine ; contemplates a work on the negative effects of democracy , materialism , and sexual permissiveness . 1850 1851 1852 1856 Publishes Latter - Day Pamphlets , CHRONOLOGY xvii.
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... tion , thirty volumes ) begins publication . In March , he has an interview with Queen Victoria . Publishes a letter in the Times strongly supporting Germany in the Franco - Prussian War . Turns over to James Anthony Froude some ...
... tion , thirty volumes ) begins publication . In March , he has an interview with Queen Victoria . Publishes a letter in the Times strongly supporting Germany in the Franco - Prussian War . Turns over to James Anthony Froude some ...
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... tion that " Mahomet was no mere sensualist , or vulgar impostor , but a real reformer . ” 70 By such challenging claims Carlyle no doubt expected to surprise his listeners , who mainly represented the English political and reli- gious ...
... tion that " Mahomet was no mere sensualist , or vulgar impostor , but a real reformer . ” 70 By such challenging claims Carlyle no doubt expected to surprise his listeners , who mainly represented the English political and reli- gious ...
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... tion and was , therefore , cast in a dialect crude and inconsistent , whereas Dante " speaks to the noble , the pure and great , in all times and places . Neither does he grow obsolete , as the other does . . . . Dante , one calculates ...
... tion and was , therefore , cast in a dialect crude and inconsistent , whereas Dante " speaks to the noble , the pure and great , in all times and places . Neither does he grow obsolete , as the other does . . . . Dante , one calculates ...
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... tion of Parliaments , can dethrone ! " 188 Luther's role in the Reforma- tion required a " kingly faculty , " 189 and Knox maintained a " virtual Presidency and Sovereignty " over Scotland.190 In the Carlylean meritocracy , men of ...
... tion of Parliaments , can dethrone ! " 188 Luther's role in the Reforma- tion required a " kingly faculty , " 189 and Knox maintained a " virtual Presidency and Sovereignty " over Scotland.190 In the Carlylean meritocracy , men of ...
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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