ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History is a book by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle, published by James Fraser, London, in 1841. It is a collection of six lectures given in May 1840 about prominent historical figures.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the mid-nineteenth century, the Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle coined the term “hero-worship, ” by which he meant the high regard, entirely proper in his view, that ordinary people have for the great figures of their history.

Detailed explanation-3: -On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in Historyis Carlyle’s literary reconstruction of a series of six public lectures, delivered between May 5 and 22, 1840, which were the culmination of his four-year experiment as a public lecturer.

Detailed explanation-4: -On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, six essays by Thomas Carlyle, published in 1841 and based on a series of lectures he delivered in 1840. The lectures, which glorified great men throughout history, were enormously popular.

Detailed explanation-5: -The lectures, as Carlyle’s title makes clear, are about heroes. Carlyle considered his own father a hero who had bred in him the view that heroes were necessary for both the individual and society as figures of support and guidance in morally difficult times.