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Sartor resartus project gutenberg edition wikisource, the free. Thomas carlyle was an extremely longlived victorian author. In his book on heroes, heroworship, and the heroic in history 1841, he argued that the actions of the great man play a key role in history, claiming that the history of the world is but the biography of great men. The project gutenberg ebook of sartor resartus, and on heroes, heroworship, and the heroic in, by thomas carlyle this ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. Sartor resartus canongate classics series by thomas carlyle. This densely allusive text emphasizes the challenge of interpretation, as carlyle adopts the metafictional guise of an english editor translating the work of a german professor. This book satirizes teufelsdrockhs search for truth. Active index for us, aware of his deep sans culottism, there is more meant in this pa ssage than meets the ear. Sartor resartus, often referred to as thomas carlyles spiritual autobiography, follows the main character, diogenes, as he gains an education steeped in the traditions of the enlightenment which destroys his belief in revealed religion, but leaves him little or nothing positive to embrace trela. Carlyle contributed articles to journals and worked on sartor resartus, a work that is now considered by some to be his masterpiece.
No one expresses this tension better than scottish historian and essayist thomas carlyle. Thomas carlyles major work, sartor resartus meaning the tailor retailored, first published as a serial in 183334, purported to be a. Or is he rather a coleridgean kind of thinker who occasionally produced philosophy. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. In the following passage carlyles sartor resartus formulates the socially constructed aspect of the texts central metaphor of clothes. He also mistrusted science as he makes clear with his barbs at science. His hostility to what he considered the souldestroying forces abroad in his age makes him seem quite like an old testament prophet of doom. The central metaphor of thomas carlyles sartor resartus.
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