| Description |
1 online resource (638 pages) |
| Series |
Norman & Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle |
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Norman & Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle
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| Contents |
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; Notes; Works Cited; Textual Apparatus; Index |
| 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, Napoleonjust a few of the individuals Carlyle celebrated for changing the course of world historymade O |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Heroes
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Hero worship.
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heroes.
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HISTORY -- World.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Hero worship.
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Heroes.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520911536 |
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0520911539 |
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0520075153 |
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9780520075153 |
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