On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

"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

Sommario

List of Illustrations
Preface
CONTENTS
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
Emendations of the Copy-Text
Discussion of Editorial Decisions
Line-End Hyphens in the Copy-Text
Line-End Hyphens in the Present Text
Historical Collation
Index
 

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

In his 1840 lectures on heroes, Thomas Carlyle, Victorian essayist and social critic, championed the importance of the individual in history. Eventually translated into fifteen languages, this work of history, comparative religion, and literature is the one of the influential statement of a man who came to be thought of as a secular prophet.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Joel J. Brattin, Thomas Carlye, T. Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Brattin Carlyle, Mark Engel
• Con la collaborazione di: Michael Goldberg (Introduzione), Goldberg Michael (Introduzione)
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 07.06.1993
• EAN: 9780520075153
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07515-3
• Pagine: 622
• Serie: Norman & Charlotte Strouse Edi; The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Saggi, articoli culturali, critica letteraria, interviste; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; History: theory & methods, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, HISTORY / Essays, General & world history, Literary essays, General and world history, History: theory and methods