Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr TeufelsdrockhThis unusual book is a must-read for fans of innovative fiction. More than a century before postmodernists like Nabokov and Barthes began to experiment with metafiction, Thomas Carlyle gave the world this playful sendup of German Idealism that purports to be a commentary on the work of fictional German philosopher Diogenes Teufelsdröckh's history of clothing. |
Contents
Chapter VIII Centre of Indifference | 152 |
Chapter IX The Everlasting Yea | 164 |
Chapter X Pause | 176 |
BOOK III | 184 |
Chapter I Incident in Modern History | 185 |
Chapter II ChurchClothes | 191 |
Chapter III Symbols | 195 |
Chapter IV Helotage | 203 |
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Chapter XI Prospective | 66 |
BOOK II | 75 |
Chapter I Genesis | 76 |
Chapter II Idyllic | 84 |
Chapter III Pedagogy | 93 |
Chapter IV Getting Under Way | 109 |
Chapter V Romance | 121 |
Chapter VI Sorrows of Teufelsdrockh | 134 |
Chapter VII The Everlasting No | 144 |
Chapter V The Phoenix | 207 |
Chapter VI Old Clothes | 213 |
Chapter VII Organic Filaments | 218 |
Chapter VIII Natural Supernaturalism | 227 |
Chapter IX Circumspective | 238 |
Chapter X The Dandiacal Body | 243 |
Chapter XI Tailors | 257 |
Chapter XII Farewell | 261 |
Appendix | 267 |
Endnotes | 275 |
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Common terms and phrases
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