Nonfiction · 1841
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History, first published in 1841, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
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- Lecture I — The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology
- Lecture II — The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet: Islam
- Lecture III — The Hero as Poet. Dante: Shakspeare
- Lecture IV — The Hero as Priest. Luther; Reformation: Knox; Puritanism
- Lecture V — The Hero as Man of Letters. Johnson, Rousseau, Burns
- Lecture VI — The Hero as King. Cromwell, Napoleon: Modern Revolutionism
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1795–1881 · Victorian
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) was born in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, studied at Edinburgh University intending the ministry, and lost his religious faith there before turning to writing and translation instead. The eccentric philosophical satire Sartor Resartus (1833–34) established his singular, densely allusive prose style; The French Revolution: A History (1837) made his reputation and remains his best-known work, written from his own idiosyncratic conviction that history turns on the will of exceptional individuals — a conviction he lost the first volume's only manuscript to before finishing it, after a maid at John Stuart Mill's house mistakenly burned it as waste paper, and rewrote entirely from memory. His London home at Cheyne Row became a gathering place for Victorian intellectual life. He died in London at eighty-five.
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