On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History (The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle) (Volume 1) - Hardcover

Carlyle, Thomas; Brattin, Joel J.; Engel, Mark; Goldberg, Michael K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520075153 ISBN 13: 9780520075153

Publisher: University of California Press, 1993

Synopsis

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, Napoleon―just a few of the individuals Carlyle celebrated for changing the course of world history―made On Heroes a challenge to the anonymous social forces threatening to control life during the Industrial Revolution.

In eight volumes, The Strouse Edition will provide the texts of Carlyle's major works edited for the first time to contemporary scholarly standards. For the general reader, its detailed introductions and annotations will offer insight into the author's thought and a reconstruction of the diverse and often arcane Carlylean sources.

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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: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0520075153
• ISBN 13: 9780520075153
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 622