Sartor Resartus

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Sartor Resartus is a satirical, philosophical novel by Thomas Carlyle that explores the nature of clothes as a metaphor for social institutions and human beliefs.

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instanceOf novel
philosophical novel
satirical novel
author Thomas Carlyle
centralTheme clothes as a metaphor for human beliefs
clothes as a metaphor for social institutions
critique of modern society
nature of symbols
relationship between appearance and reality
spiritual crisis and renewal
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstPublicationYear 1833
1834
firstPublishedIn Fraser's Magazine
genre metafiction
philosophical fiction
satire
hasTopic philosophy of history
politics
religion
social criticism
symbolism
influenced Transcendentalism
surface form: American Transcendentalism

Ralph Waldo Emerson
modernist narrative experimentation
influencedBy German idealist philosophy
Romanticism
language English
literaryMovement Victorian literature
mainCharacter Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
anonymous English editor
narrativeMode first-person editor-narrator
narrativeTechnique fragmentary documents
mock scholarship
pseudo-biography
notableFor blend of fiction, philosophy, and criticism
complex, digressive style
early example of Victorian experimental prose
originalPublicationFormat serial
period early Victorian period
placeOfFirstBookPublication London, England
surface form: London
publisherOfFirstBookEdition James Fraser
setting fictional German university town of Weissnichtwo
structure framed as an editor's commentary on a German philosopher's work
titleLanguage Latin
titleMeaning The Tailor Re-tailored

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Thomas Carlyle notableWork Sartor Resartus
Past and Present relatedWorkByAuthor Sartor Resartus
Carlyle notableWork Sartor Resartus
subject surface form: Thomas Carlyle
Life of Friedrich Schiller relatedWork Sartor Resartus