Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh in Three Books

2014 Reprint of 1927 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Sartor Resartus is Thomas Carlyles most enduring and influential work. First published in serial form in Frasers Magazine in 1833-1834 it was discovered by the American Transcendentalists. Sponsored by Ralph Waldo Emerson it was first printed as a book in Boston in 1836 and immediately became the inspiration for the Transcendental movement. The first London trade edition was published in 1838. By the 1840s largely on the strength of Sartor Resartus Carlyle became one of the leading literary figures in Britain. The book became one of the important texts of nineteenth-century English literature central to the Romantic Movement and Victorian culture. At the time of Carlyles death in 1881 more than 69000 copies had been sold. The post-Victorian influence continued and extends to writers as diverse as Virginia Woolf and James Joyce Willa Cather and Ernest Hemingway.