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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Main Author: Carlyle, Thomas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993.
Series:Norman & Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle.
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