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UNINA9910455312703321 |
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Carlyle Thomas <1795-1881.> |
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On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history [[electronic resource] /] / notes and introduction by Michael K. Goldberg ; text established by Michael K. Goldberg, Joel J. Brattin, and Mark Engel |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1993 |
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1-282-35665-8 |
9786612356650 |
0-520-91153-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (638 p.) |
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The Norman and Charlotte Strouse edition of the writings of Thomas Carlyle |
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GoldbergM. K <1930-> (Michael K.) |
BrattinJoel J. <1956-> |
EngelMark |
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Heroes |
Hero worship |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Chronology of Carlyle's Life -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History -- 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. -- Appendix: 1858 Summary and Index -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Textual Apparatus -- Index |
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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 |
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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.In eight volumes, The Strouse Edition will provide the texts of Carlyle's major works edited for the first time to contemporary scholarly standards. For the general reader, its detailed introductions and annotations will offer insight into the author's thought and a reconstruction of the diverse and often arcane Carlylean sources. |
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UNINA9910827290103321 |
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Glomski Jacqueline L. <1951-> |
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Patronage and humanist literature in the age of the Jagiellons : court and career in the writings of Rudolf Agricola Junior, Valentin Eck, and Leonard Cox / / Jacqueline Glomski |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2007 |
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©2007 |
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[16th ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Authors and patrons - Europe - History - 16th century |
Authors and patrons - Poland - History - 16th century |
History |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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Poland |
Europe |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Patronage and humanist literature at Cracow, 1510-1530: the careers |
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of Rudolf Agricola junior, Valentin Eck, and Leonard Cox -- Careerism at Cracow: issues of identity and self-promotion -- Hero-making: the image of the great man -- The need for the immediate production of poetry: political propaganda and occasional verse. |
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Every epoch has its artists, thinkers, and creators, and behind many of these people, there is a patron waiting in the wings. Patronage and Humanist Literature in the Age of the Jagiellons looks at the relationship between humanist scholars and their patrons in east central Europe during the early sixteenth century. It is the first study in English specifically to address literary patronage as it existed in this particular time and place. Drawing on the writings of three itinerant scholar-poets associated with the courts of Cracow, Buda, and Vienna, Jacqueline Glomski argues that, even while they supported the imperial pretensions of the Jagiellonian monarchs, the humanist scholars of east central Europe also created effective propaganda for themselves by representing their own role in the conferring of fame upon their patrons. Using a wide array of source material, from dedicatory letters to panegyric and political literature, Glomski describes how important patronage was to the scholar-poets, and analyzes the process by which conventions of Renaissance humanism spread across Europe. Patronage and Humanist Literature in the Age of the Jagiellons is an insightful historic account that is accessible to anyone interested in patronage at the time of the European Renaissance. |
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