On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history

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 m...

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Autor principal:	Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 (-)
Otros Autores:	Goldberg, M. K. (Michael K.), 1930-, Brattin, Joel J., 1956-, Engel, Mark
Formato:	Libro electrónico
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Berkeley : University of California Press c1993.
Edición:	1st ed
Colección:	Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Works. 1993. The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle
Materias:	Heroes. Hero worship. 19th century. ambition. biography. british literature. classics. conservatism. dante. english history. english literature. essays. great britain. great men. great works. hero worship. history. individualism. leadership. legacy. literary criticism. literature. luther. muhammed. napoleon. nonfiction. philosophy. political science. profile. psychology. role models. social commentary. success. victorian culture. victorian manhood. victorian masculinity. victorian prose. victorian. world history.
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