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...
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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
The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle
The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle Ser. ; v.1
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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 ApparatusEmendations 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