ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Sartor Resartus, (Latin: “The Tailor Re-tailored”) humorous essay by Thomas Carlyle, ostensibly a learned treatise on the philosophy, the symbolism, and the influence of clothes, published serially in Fraser’s Magazine (November 1833–August 1834).

Detailed explanation-2: -Sartor Resartus is a satirical philosophical novel by Thomas Carlyle. It was originally published in 1831 and is a biting critique of German Idealism, a philosophical standpoint concerned with learning the absolute truth about reality.

Detailed explanation-3: -Carlyle’s style is emphatic, quirky, and either magnetising or tedious and hectoring, 0r perhaps both. It is marked by distinctive features that make it really unique. One is his attention to prose rhythms.

Detailed explanation-4: -Themes. Sartor Resartus was intended to be a new kind of book: simultaneously factual and fictional, serious and satirical, speculative and historical. It ironically commented on its own formal structure, while forcing the reader to confront the problem of where “truth” is to be found.

Detailed explanation-5: -Sartor Resartus is Thomas Carlyle’s most enduring and influential work. First published in serial form in Fraser’s Magazine in 1833-1834, it was discovered by the American Transcendentalists.