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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History: Volume 1 Hardcover - 1993
by Thomas Carlyle; Introduction by Michael Goldberg; Contribution by Michael Goldberg
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"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
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- Title On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History: Volume 1
- Author Thomas Carlyle; Introduction by Michael Goldberg; Contribution by Michael Goldberg
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 622
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
- Date 1993-06-07
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Annotated, Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780520075153 / 0520075153
- Weight 2.77 lbs (1.26 kg)
- Dimensions 9.36 x 6.31 x 2 in (23.77 x 16.03 x 5.08 cm)
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- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Heroes, Hero worship
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91033937
- Dewey Decimal Code 824.8
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. First American edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/4"). CIII, [15], 519, [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over light brown cloth, with red lettering to spine. "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." (From the Publishers). Upper margin of dust-jacket slightly creased.…
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