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 of the first two volumes of Frederick the Great . 1857-58 Collected Works ( the Uniform Edition ) published in sixteen volumes . 1858 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 First two volumes of Frederick the Great published . In late summer ...
... writing of the first two volumes of Frederick the Great . 1857-58 Collected Works ( the Uniform Edition ) published in sixteen volumes . 1858 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 First two volumes of Frederick the Great published . In late summer ...
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... 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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... written prose was the result of considerable artifice and careful contrivance . Carlyle's account of his experience in writing On Heroes bears this out . The labor began in June and ended in September , a period considerably longer than ...
... written prose was the result of considerable artifice and careful contrivance . Carlyle's account of his experience in writing On Heroes bears this out . The labor began in June and ended in September , a period considerably longer than ...
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... writing goes along like a fire well kindled . " 93 Sometimes he was aware of advantages in converting the spoken to the ... written . " With improvements , it would in its final shape " do as well as any of the rest . " 94 But even with ...
... writing goes along like a fire well kindled . " 93 Sometimes he was aware of advantages in converting the spoken to the ... written . " With improvements , it would in its final shape " do as well as any of the rest . " 94 But even with ...
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... written ' Biographies . " " 117 From these remarks one can see that Carlyle used physiognomy in both its narrowest and its widest signification . Most narrowly it meant that inner character revealed itself in the face . But such inward ...
... written ' Biographies . " " 117 From these remarks one can see that Carlyle used physiognomy in both its narrowest and its widest signification . Most narrowly it meant that inner character revealed itself in the face . But such inward ...
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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