The Rhetorical Form of Carlyle's Sartor Resartus

The Rhetorical Form of Carlyle’sSartor Resartus by Gerry H. Brookes offers a searching reappraisal of Thomas Carlyle’s most enigmatic early masterpiece. Long considered a perplexing hybrid—part satire, part philosophy, part spiritual autobiography—Sartor Resartus has resisted conventional classification. Brookes argues instead that the work is best understood as a persuasive essay, a sustained rhetorical performance that weaves fiction and philosophy into a coherent attempt to move its read...