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1
Life and Letters of T. H. Huxley
(New York, 1900), i. 237.
2
Essays of George Eliot
, ed. T. Pinney (London, 1963), 213–14.
3
A. J. La Valley,
Carlyle and the Idea of the Modern
(New Haven, 1968), 110.
4
Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle
, ed. C. R. Sanders
et al
. (Durham, North Carolina, 1970– ), i. 336.
5
Collected Letters
, ii. 230.
6
Ibid. 434, 437.
7
Literary Criticism: French Writers; Other European Writers; The Prefaces to the New York Edition
, ed. L. Edel (New York, 1984), 944.
8
Works of Thomas Carlyle
, Centenary Edition, ed. H. D. Traill (London, 1896–9), xxviii. 45, 46, 47–8, 49, 51–2, 58, 54.
9
Collected Letters
, vi. 446.
10
Ibid. v. 164, 175, 215; vi. 395. The name of the hero had been changed from
Teufelsdreck
to the less vulgar
Teufelsdröckh
(Devil’s excrement) by February 1833.
11
Ibid. vi. 395. ‘D.U.J.’ could be expanded to ‘Doctor of Universal Jurisprudence’.
12
Carlyle and German Thought: 1819–1834
(New York, 1934), 6; Carlyle, ‘Jean Paul Friedrich Richter’ (1827), in
Works
, xxvi. 17.
13
Ibid. 5, 9, 12.
14
Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre
(Berkeley, 1975), ix, xi.
15
‘Structure and Style in the Greater Romantic Lyric’, in his
The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism
(New York, 1984), 96.
16
Robert Jay Lifton and Eric Olson,
Living and Dying
(New York, 1974), 31.
17
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
, trans. W. Trask (New York, 1959), 13.
18
F. W. H. Myers,
Essays Classical and Modern
(London, 1921), 495.
19
Twilight of the Idols
, in
The Portable Nietzsche
, ed. and trans. W. Kaufmann (New York, 1954), 515–16.
20
Ibid., 521.
21
Sartor Resartus
, ed. C. F. Harrold (New York, 1937), xxx.
22
Daniel P. Deneau, ‘Relationship of Style and Device in
Sartor Resartus’, Victorian Newsletter
, xvii (1960), 18.
23
P. A. Dale, ‘
Sartor Resartus
and the Inverse Sublime: The Art of Humorous Deconstruction’, in
Allegory, Myth and Symbol
, ed. M. W. Bloomfield (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), 302.
24
The Correspondence of Emerson and Carlyle
, ed. J. Slater (New York, 1964), 98; Appendix III, p. 232 below.
25
Collected Letters
, vi. 448–9.
26
Critical and Historical Essays
(London, 1854), i. 5–9.
27
See K. McSweeney,
Tennyson and Swinburne as Romantic Naturalists
(Toronto, 1981), 26–37.
28
‘Sartor Resartus
and the Balance of Fiction’,
Victorian Studies
, viii (1964), 153, 154.
29
‘“Shadow Hunting”: Romantic Irony,
Sartor Resartus
, and Victorian Romanticism’,
Studies in Romanticism
, xvii (1978), 329, 319.
30
English Romantic Irony
(Cambridge, Mass., 1980), 131, 133.
31
Autobiography and Literary Essays
, ed. J. M. Robson and J. Stillinger (Toronto, 1981), 183.
†
With us even he still communicates in some sort of mask, or muffler; and, we have reason to think, under a feigned name!—
O. Y.
†
Gukguk is unhappily only an academical—Beer.
†
Fraser’s
(London)
Magazine
, 1833–4.