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 xxxvii
... true Luther . A rude , plebeian face ; with its huge crag - like brows and bones , the emblem of rugged energy ; at first , almost a repulsive face . Yet in the eyes especially there is a wild silent sorrow ; · giving to the rest the true ...
... true Luther . A rude , plebeian face ; with its huge crag - like brows and bones , the emblem of rugged energy ; at first , almost a repulsive face . Yet in the eyes especially there is a wild silent sorrow ; · giving to the rest the true ...
Page xxxix
... true genius , " 135 and then wrote a twelve - line physiognomic analysis of it.136 During the writing of The French Revolution , Carlyle also " dug out " a series of engraved por- traits that affected his conception of the participants ...
... true genius , " 135 and then wrote a twelve - line physiognomic analysis of it.136 During the writing of The French Revolution , Carlyle also " dug out " a series of engraved por- traits that affected his conception of the participants ...
Page xlii
... true Speaker at all , and not rather an ambitious charlatan , perversity and simula- crum , " he added in his next lecture . 157 In spite of such reservations , he did come out and publicly declare his conviction , the " first strong ...
... true Speaker at all , and not rather an ambitious charlatan , perversity and simula- crum , " he added in his next lecture . 157 In spite of such reservations , he did come out and publicly declare his conviction , the " first strong ...
Page xliii
... true portrait of the Protector free from historical distortion and the blur of mediocre reporting . It was no easy task . In September he wrote , " I am now over head and ears in Cromwellean Books ; studying , for perhaps the fourth ...
... true portrait of the Protector free from historical distortion and the blur of mediocre reporting . It was no easy task . In September he wrote , " I am now over head and ears in Cromwellean Books ; studying , for perhaps the fourth ...
Page lviii
... true that " more systematic minds than Carlyle's have been baffled by this problem . " 249 On the evidence of On Heroes alone , Carlyle's answer to the ques- tion , Do heroes create historical events ? is both yes and no . Their ...
... true that " more systematic minds than Carlyle's have been baffled by this problem . " 249 On the evidence of On Heroes alone , Carlyle's answer to the ques- tion , Do heroes create historical events ? is both yes and no . Their ...
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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