Carlyle through Nietzsche: reading Sartor Resartus.(Thomas Carlyle, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)(Critical essay)
From: The Modern Language Review
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Date: 4/1/2007
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Author: Tambling, Jeremy
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 ...
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