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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Hardcover, Revised)
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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Hardcover, Revised)
Series: The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, 1
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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 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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