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Article: Carlyle through Nietzsche: reading Sartor Resartus.(Thomas Carlyle, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)(Critical essay)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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Carlyle's Sartor Resartus is given a new reading here in the light of Nietzsche's brief but suggestive comments on Carlyle and his dyspepsia. It is seen as a text fascinated by devouring and the fear of being devoured (as with The French Revolution). Carlyle's Romantic investment in standing up as a man is read in the light of this fear of obliteration, which, however, has as its other side the danger that Carlyle moves towards a fetishistic investment in manhood. There is also a reading of Dickens, giving close attention especially to Dombey and Son in the light of the vocabulary of Sartor Resartus, pursuing the theme of what Dickens takes, consciously and unconsciously, ...