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.

Mídia	Livros Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura)
Lançado	18 de janeiro de 2017
ISBN13	9781542615228
Editoras	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Páginas	224
Dimensões	152 × 229 × 12 mm · 303 g
Idioma	English

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