1888 Sartor Resartus & Lectures on Heroes Chartism Past & Present Copyright Edit

Description: Sartor Resartus & Lectures on Heroes Chartism Past and Present. Thomas Carlyle. Chapman & Hall Printed in : 1888. Copyright edition. Please check out my other items! For multiple purchases Please feel free to contact me to request postage discount based on quantity and final weight. All of my books are antique or almost antique therefore will show signs of age as to be expected. Prices reflect both the rarity and the condition. All photos are accurate and are of the actual book for sale. Reviews : I stumbled on this outstanding work and have devoured it in one long long read. It could have been written only yesterday in its commentary on the human condition. Carlyle skewers and roasts the establishment, the church in its guises and fashion. Yet, he displays a great empathy for the have nots and withering contempt for the wealthy, particularly, inherited wealth. Here is an author, sure footed at the top of his game. He now joins my relatively short list of authors such as JP Donleavy, Rabelais,,Pynchon, Spike Milligan et al. I RECOMMEND that it be read whilst dressed in your red leather one piece and ocelot dressing gown Written by Carlyle in the 1830's, this is a slightly odd novel that sort of straddles several genres. The central metaphor is clothes: the old ones tattered and needing to be torn off and replaced with new ones (a startlingly radical thing to say at a time of national disturbance and civil strife) and the need for people to trust tailors, learn to distinguish what clothes are important and what not (metaphors for civil society reorganizing itself at a time of strife) and behind it all the children's story of the emperor's new clothes - which only the outsider(the child, waif) could bring himself to identify properly - worthless - while custom and fear kept others enthralled.It also anticipates many ideas about language and structure and narrative that were to come in the 20th century with the likes of Joyce and Woolfe.It gets five stars for being an important book, exceedingly clever and many, many years ahead of its time Thomas Carlyle's noted works combined in one hardback volume.Sartor Resartus (meaning 'The tailor re-tailored') is an 1836 novel by Thomas Carlyle, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in November 1833–August 1834. The novel purports to be a commentary on the thought and early life of a German philosopher called Diogenes Teufelsdröckh (which translates as 'Zeus-born devil-dung'), author of a tome entitled Clothes: Their Origin and Influence. Teufelsdröckh's Transcendentalist musings are mulled over by a sceptical English Reviewer (referred to as Editor) who also provides fragmentary biographical material on the philosopher. The work is, in part, a parody of Hegel, and of German Idealism .Lectures on Heroes; On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History is a book by Thomas Carlyle, published with James Fraser, London, in 1841. It is a collection of six lectures given in May 1840. 1. (5 May) The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology 2. (8 May) The Hero as Prophet. Muhammad: Islam 3. (12 May) The Hero as Poet. Dante; Shakespeare 4. (15 May) The Hero as Priest. Luther; Reformation: Knox; Puritanism 5. (19 May) The Hero as Man of Letters. Johnson, Rousseau, Burns 6. (22 May) The Hero as King. Cromwell. Napoleon: Modern Revolutionism..Chartism; Carlyle's attempt to find a place for Chartism in the political reviews reveals the extent to which he conceived his discussion of the condition of England in terms of the analyses and solutions offered by the dominant political parties. He still hoped to awaken the Tories to their duty, but by publishing on his own he was free to write an essay "equally astonishing to Girondin Radicals, Donothing Aristocrat Conservatives, and Unbelieving Dilettante Whigs". Although the style of Chartism is distinctively Carlylean, Carlyle confined himself to the discourse of Parliament and the political reviews, the discourse of political economy rather than the ethical discourse of quasi-religious belief. Past and Present; Past and Present was published in April 1843 in England and the following month in the United States. It combines medieval history with criticism of 19th-century British society. Carlyle wrote it in seven weeks as a respite from the harassing labor of writing Cromwell. He was inspired by the recently published Chronicles of the Abbey of Saint Edmund's Bury, which had been written by Jocelin of Brakelond at the close of the 12th century. This account of a medieval monastery had taken Carlyle's fancy, and he drew upon it in order to contrast the monks' reverence for work and heroism with the sham leadership of his own day. Please see photos as they form part of the description

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