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

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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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Main Author: Carlyle, Thomas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Heroes.
Hero worship.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HISTORY > World.
heroes.
Heros > Culte.
Heros.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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, Napoleonjust a few of the individuals Carlyle celebrated for changing the course of world historymade O.
Physical Description:1 online resource (622 pages).
ISBN:9780520911536

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