Sartor Resartus or The Tailor Re-Tailored

What serious essays don’t accomplish, fiction often does. This is the case of Carlyle’s publication of Sartor Resartus, which established him as a social critic. The work was received with much confusion because of its unique literary style; never mind that not many people really understood the work.

The title of the work means “the tailor re-tailored” and highlights the main theme of the work: that social customs and religious and political institutions are merely the "clothing" of essentia...