Thomas Carlyle's On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History — An Overview

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• Biographical Materials
• "The Hero as Man of Letters. Johnson, Rousseau, Burns" [text]
• Masculinity in Carlyle's Heroes
• "The "Hero as King" and the Idyll as Theocracy" (Chapter from Chris R. Vanden Bossche's Carlyle and the Search for Authority)
• "Cromwell Past and Present " (Chapter from Chris R. Vanden Bossche's Carlyle and the Search for Authority)
• Reading and Discussion Questions
• The Artist as Hero: Revised standards or different definitions in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History ?
• Carlyle as Man of Letters in On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
• Carlyle and the Romantic Vision
• The Confines of Language
• The Divine Idea in Carlyle's On Heroes
• Art and Heroism
• Carlyle's Problematic Portrayal of Mahomet and Islam
• Heroes, Art, and Religion
• Sincere Idolatry: Carlyle and Religious Symbols
• Orientalist tropes in "The Hero as Prophet"
• Examining the Essence of Sincerity and Originality in Carlyle's Heroes
• Don't be a Hero: Carlyle and the Eschatology of Heroes and Empire
• Heroes and Hero-Worship in "The Hero as Man of Letters"

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Last modified 22 May 2004