Perspectives on nineteenth-century heroism: Essays from the 1981 Conference of the Southeastern Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (Studia humanitatis)

A Collection of 12 essays in three groupings. Part 1 The Phenomenon of Heroism: The Romantic Hero; Hegel's Faust and Goethe's Phenomenology; The Open Secret: Carlyle as Prophetic Hero; and "Not Like My Launcelot": The Disappearing Victorian Hero. Part 2: Culture Hero: Napoleon as Hero; John Burroughs: An Emersonian Naturalist in the Age of Darwin; The Detective as Hero; Jean-Francois Millet; Ethnic Heroism: Matthew Arnold's and George Eliot's Gypsies. Part 3: Cutlrue Heroines: The Daughters of Griselda, Alisoun, and Eve; Old Maids and the Wish for Wings; The Absence of Heroism in the Anglo-Jewish Novel.