Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in HistoryCarlyle, Thomas
Philosophy
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Carlyle, Thomas
Clothing and dress -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Didactic fiction; Germany -- Fiction; Heroes; Philosophers -- Fiction; Satire
First Collected Edition of Works, 1857-58 (16 vols.).
_Reminiscences_, ed. by Froude in 1881, but superseded by C.
E. Norton's edition of 1887. Norton has also edited two
volumes of _Letters_ (1888), and Carlyle's correspondence with
Emerson (1883) and with Goethe (1887). Other volumes of
correspondence are _New Letters_ (1904), _Carlyle Intime_
(1907), _Love Letters_ (1909), _Letters to Mill, Sterling, and
Browning_ (1923), all ed. by Alexander Carlyle. See also _Last
Words of Carlyle_, 1892.
The fullest _Life_ is that by D. A. Wilson. The first of six
volumes appeared in 1923, and by 1934 only one remained to be
published.
CONTENTS
SARTOR RESARTUS
BOOK I
CHAP. PAGE
I. PRELIMINARY 1
II. EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES 5
III. REMINISCENCES 9
IV. CHARACTERISTICS 20
V. THE WORLD IN CLOTHES 25
VI. APRONS 31
VII. MISCELLANEOUS-HISTORICAL 34
VIII. THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES 37
IX. ADAMITISM 43
X. PURE REASON 47
XI. PROSPECTIVE 52
BOOK II
I. GENESIS 61
II. IDYLLIC 68
III. PEDAGOGY 76
IV. GETTING UNDER WAY 90
V. ROMANCE 101
VI. SORROWS OF TEUFELSDROeCKH 112
VII. THE EVERLASTING NO 121
VIII. CENTRE OF INDIFFERENCE 128
IX. THE EVERLASTING YEA 138
X. PAUSE 149
BOOK III
I. INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY 156
II. CHURCH-CLOTHES 161
III. SYMBOLS 163
IV. HELOTAGE 170
V. THE PHOENIX 174
VI. OLD CLOTHES 179
VII. ORGANIC FILAMENTS 183
VIII. NATURAL SUPERNATURALISM 191
IX. CIRCUMSPECTIVE 201
X. THE DANDIACAL BODY 204
XI. TAILORS 216
XII. FAREWELL 219
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