On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History.

By: Carlyle, ThomasContributor(s): Brattin, Joel J | Engel, Mark | Goldberg, Michael KMaterial type: TextTextSeries: The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle SerPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993Copyright date: ©1993Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (638 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780520911536Subject(s): Hero worship | HeroesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in HistoryDDC classification: 909 LOC classification: PR4426.A2 -- G65 1993ebOnline resources: Click to View
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Chronology of Carlyle's Life -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History -- Lecture I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology -- Lecture II. The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet: Islam -- Lecture III. The Hero as Poet. Dante -- Shakspeare -- Lecture IV. The Hero as Priest. Luther -- Reformation: Knox -- Puritanism -- Lecture V. The Hero as Man of Letters. Johnson, Rousseau, Burns -- Lecture VI. The Hero as King. Cromwell, Napoleon: Modern Revolutionism -- Appendix: 1858 Summary and Index -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Textual Apparatus -- Emendations of the Copy-Text -- Discussion of Editorial Decisions -- Line-End Hyphens in the Copy-Text -- Line-End Hyphens in the Present Text -- Historical Collation -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: 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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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Chronology of Carlyle's Life -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History -- Lecture I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology -- Lecture II. The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet: Islam -- Lecture III. The Hero as Poet. Dante -- Shakspeare -- Lecture IV. The Hero as Priest. Luther -- Reformation: Knox -- Puritanism -- Lecture V. The Hero as Man of Letters. Johnson, Rousseau, Burns -- Lecture VI. The Hero as King. Cromwell, Napoleon: Modern Revolutionism -- Appendix: 1858 Summary and Index -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Textual Apparatus -- Emendations of the Copy-Text -- Discussion of Editorial Decisions -- Line-End Hyphens in the Copy-Text -- Line-End Hyphens in the Present Text -- Historical Collation -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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