A Note on the Edition
Editorial Introduction: Or, How to Read Sartor Resartus
Editorial Introduction: Or, How to Read Sartor Resartus
The bibliography presented here is intended to provide readers with a selective introduction to scholarship on Sartor Resartus. It includes works that reflect upon the narratological structure, politics, and context of the volume, but of necessity omits many valuable studies that engage with the more minute details of Carlyle’s writing.
Baker, Lee C.R., “The Open Secret of Sartor Resartus: Carlyle’s Method of Converting his Reader.” Studies in Philology. 83.2 (Spring, 1986): 218-35.
Jacqueline Banerjee in “Frail Treasures: Child Death and the Victorian Novel” (2007) describes the Victorian novelists’ obsession with death as a means of resolve. Victorian writers would situate an innocent child who slowly accrues self-awareness after a death. This sacrificial death would then create an impetus for character development. Banerjee describes this as a meeting between the Romantic ideal of the innocent child and the Evangelical ‘saved’ [dead] child who then serves as a spiritual guide, as an angel.