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...
| Основен автор: | Carlyle, Thomas. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1993.
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| Серия: |
Norman & Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=295064 |
| Резюме: |
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. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (638 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780520911536 0520911539 0520075153 9780520075153 |