On Heroes, Hero-Worship & the Heroic in History. Notes and Introduction by Michael K. Goldberg. Text Established by Michael K. Goldberg, Joel J. Brattin, and Mark Engel.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed, otherwise very good and clean. / Leicht berieben, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - 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, and Napoleon�just a few of the individuals Carlyle celebrated for changing the course of world history�made On Heroes a work that challenged the anonymous social forces threatening to control life during the Industrial Revolution. Its great rhetorical and moral power stirred the conscience of Carlyle�s century and ours, inspiring figures as diverse as Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, George Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Vincent van Gogh, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Winston Churchill. In eight volumes, The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle will provide accurate texts of Carlyle�s major works edited for the first time to contemporary scholarly standards. The full critical annotation prepared by the editors will assist contemporary readers by reconstructing the diverse and often arcane Carlylean sources and analyzing the different versions of the text. Murray Baumgarten serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Strouse Edition. - Michael K. Goldberg is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. His many publications on the nineteenth century include Carlyle and Dickens (University of Georgia Press, 1972). Joel J. Brattin is Assistant Professor in the Humanities at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He has published extensively on textual issues in Victorian writing. Mark Engel is a student of philosophy, a professional editor, and an independent scholar. Murray Baumgarten, founding director of the Dickens Project, is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. ISBN 9780520075153