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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and 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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Autor principal: Carlyle, Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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