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Article: Sartor Resartus revisited: Carlylean echoes in Crane's The Red Badge of Courage.
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- Nineteenth-Century Prose
- Article date:
- December 22, 1988
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That the writings of Thomas Carlyle have been widely influential is, of course, a truism. A reader with a close knowledge of Carlyle often finds echoes of him in unexpected places in the works of others. An example of this may he seen in the works of Stephen Crane. A close examination of The Red Badge of Courage side by side with the "Everlasting No"--"Everlasting Yea" chapters from Sartor Resartus leaves a reader with the impression that Henry Fleming's ordeal and eventual triumph in the Red Badge may well be a kind of subconscious reenactment of the ordeal and triumph of Diogenes Teufelsdrockh in that central portion of Sartor Resartus.
While it cannot be ...