Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh
Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh,by T. Carlyle , originally published in Fraser's Magazine 1833 – 4 , and as a separate volume, at Boston, Massachusetts, 1836 (partly through the intervention of Emerson , who had visited Carlyle at Craigenputtock in 1833 ); first English edition 1838 .
This work was written under the influence of the German Romantic school and particularly of Richter . It consists of two parts: a discourse on the philosophy of clothes (sartor resartus means ‘the tailor re-patched’) based on the speculations of an imaginary Professor Teufelsdröckh, and leading to the conclusion that all symbols, forms, and human institutions are properly clothes, and as such temporary; and a biography of Teufelsdröckh himself, which is in some measure the author's autobiography, particularly in the description of the village of Entepfuhl and of the German...
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