On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History - Softcover
A collection of seven essays which includes The Hero as Divinity, The Hero as Prophet, The Hero as Poet, The Hero as Priest, The Hero as Man of Letters, and The Hero as King. Carlyle's observations on Odin, Mahomet, Dante, Shakespeare, Luther, Knox, Johnson, Rousseau, Burns, Cromwell, and Napoleon.
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"How great he was! He made history a song for the first time in our language. He was our English Tacitus."—Oscar Wilde
"A definitive text . . . a crucial standard for further study of Carlyle."—David Nordloh, Indiana University
"The publication of the first scholarly and fully annotated edition of On Heroes is a major intellectual event."—J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine
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"A definitive text . . . a crucial standard for further study of Carlyle."—David Nordloh, Indiana University
"The publication of the first scholarly and fully annotated edition of On Heroes is a major intellectual event."—J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine
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.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1481142666
- ISBN 13 9781481142663
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages156
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