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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh

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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh, by T. Carlyle, originally published in Fraser's Magazine 1833–4; first English edition 1838.

This work was written under the influence of the German Romantic school and particularly of Richter. It consists of two parts: a discourse on the philosophy of clothes (sartor resartus means ‘the tailor re-patched’) based on the speculations of an imaginary Professor Teufelsdröckh; and a biography of Teufelsdröckh himself, which is in some measure the author's autobiography.

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