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Bibliography: Sartor Resartus by Carlyle, Thomas

Title
Sartor Resartus
Author
Carlyle, Thomas
Date
1833-34
Genre
nonfiction
Note Source
The Professor's House Scholarly Edition 349; Leader 12/2/1899
Note Relating to Cather

The Professor's House, the following is written: "Cather owned a copy of the book when she was a high-school student in Red Cloud, and Carlyle was the subject of her first published essay when she was a sub-freshman at the University of Nebraska."

In a review of Whiteing's The Island (1888), Cather says: "Richard Whiteing recalls the Carlyle of Sartor Resartus; a Carlyle somewhat tamed, as it were ...".