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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Berkeley :
University of California Press
c1993.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Works. 1993.
The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009633534406719 |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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 Apparatus
- Index
