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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... writing a biography of Cromwell . On Heroes , Hero - Worship , and the Heroic in History published . While visiting the Bury St. Edmunds area , he conceives the idea for Past and Present . 1843 Past and Present published . 1844 John ...
... writing a biography of Cromwell . On Heroes , Hero - Worship , and the Heroic in History published . While visiting the Bury St. Edmunds area , he conceives the idea for Past and Present . 1843 Past and Present published . 1844 John ...
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... writers , including William Allingham and John Tyndall . Life of John Sterling . In the fall , he visits Paris ... writing of the first two volumes of Frederick the Great . 1857-58 Collected Works ( the Uniform Edition ) published ...
... writers , including William Allingham and John Tyndall . Life of John Sterling . In the fall , he visits Paris ... writing of the first two volumes of Frederick the Great . 1857-58 Collected Works ( the Uniform Edition ) published ...
Page xix
... writing . Carlyle's portrait is painted by Whistler . 1874-75 Enters the controversy about the authenticity of a portrait of John Knox and dictates an essay , “ Portraits of John Knox " ( 1875 ) . 1875 His eightieth birthday in December ...
... writing . Carlyle's portrait is painted by Whistler . 1874-75 Enters the controversy about the authenticity of a portrait of John Knox and dictates an essay , “ Portraits of John Knox " ( 1875 ) . 1875 His eightieth birthday in December ...
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... writing . Despite his determination , he felt " a kind of shudder " through his " whole heart " at the thought.12 The feeling was proleptic , for on the evidence of his journals and letters , lecturing was always to be an ordeal and ...
... writing . Despite his determination , he felt " a kind of shudder " through his " whole heart " at the thought.12 The feeling was proleptic , for on the evidence of his journals and letters , lecturing was always to be an ordeal and ...
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... writing them down ; then flaming about , over both hemispheres with them ( too like a Cagliostroccio ! ) , to earn as much as will buy the smallest peculium of annuity whereon to retire into some hut by the sea - shore . " 55 As he ...
... writing them down ; then flaming about , over both hemispheres with them ( too like a Cagliostroccio ! ) , to earn as much as will buy the smallest peculium of annuity whereon to retire into some hut by the sea - shore . " 55 As he ...
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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