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

By:

Thomas Carlyle

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Hardback

Series:

The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle

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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 15 languages, this 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 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.

Author Biography:

Michael K. Goldberg is Professor of English, University of British Columbia. He has written widely on the 19th century including Carlyle and Dickens (Georgia, 1972). Joel J. Brattin is Assistant Professor in the Humanities at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Mark Engel is a student of philosophy, a professional editor, and an independent scholar.

Release date NZ

June 7th, 1993

Author

Thomas Carlyle

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Contributions by Michael Goldberg
Introduction by Michael Goldberg
Text by Joel J. Brattin
Text by Mark Engel
Text by Michael Goldberg

Pages

622

Series

The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle

Dimensions

152x229x51

ISBN-13

9780520075153

Product ID

6035207

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