On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History - Softcover

Carlyle, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1515096122 ISBN 13: 9781515096122

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Thomas Carlyle was a 19th century Scottish philosopher and historian who was renowned as one of the great social commentators of his time. He wrote extensively about the past and the cultural connections of mythology as well.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1515096122
• ISBN 13: 9781515096122
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 126