A fictional German professor's 'philosophy of clothes' becomes a meditation on how all creeds and forms are garments the spirit wears.
Books mentioned in Sartor Resartus (11)
The Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu: “"As Montesquieu wrote a Spirit of Laws," observes our Professor, "so could I write a Spirit of Clothes; thus, with an Esprit des Lois, properly an Esprit de Coutumes”
Orbis Pictus by John Amos Comenius: “(as the Nurnbergers give an Orbis Pictus) an Orbis Vestitus”
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “or what the Earth-Spirit in Faust names it, the living visible Garment of God”
Mécanique Céleste by Pierre-Simon Laplace: “from Sanchoniathon to Dr. Lingard, from your Oriental Shasters, and Talmuds, and Korans, with Cassini's Siamese fables, and Laplace's Mecanique Celeste, down to Robinson Crusoe and the Belfast Town and Country Almanack, are familiar to him”
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: “from Sanchoniathon to Dr. Lingard, from your Oriental Shasters, and Talmuds, and Korans, with Cassini's Siamese fables, and Laplace's Mecanique Celeste, down to Robinson Crusoe and the Belfast Town and Country Almanack, are familiar to him”
Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller: “It was then that, independently of Schiller's Wilhelm Tell, I made this not quite insignificant reflection (so true also in spiritual things): Any road, this simple Entepfuhl road, will lead you to the end of the World!”
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “even as the great Goethe, in passionate words, had to write his Sorrows of Werter, before the spirit freed herself, and he could become a Man.”
The Enchiridion by Epictetus: “The Enchiridion of Epictetus I had ever with me, often as my sole rational companion; and regret to mention that the nourishment it yielded was trifling.”
Wissenschaftslehre by Johann Gottlieb Fichte: “If Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre be, 'to a certain extent, Applied Christianity,' surely to a still greater extent, so is this.”
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “like the Lothario in Wilhelm Meister, that your 'America is here or nowhere'?”
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: “Why of Shakspeare, in his Taming of the Shrew, and elsewhere?”
Books that mention Sartor Resartus (10)
Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe: “It may be that we do not read _Sartor Resartus_ as zealously as the Englishman.”
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: “She had never read Sartor Resartus, but she had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.”
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell: “In choosing their delegates, too, the operatives had had more regard to their brains, and power of speech, than to their wardrobes; they might have read the opinions of that worthy Professor Teufelsdreck, in Sartor Resartus, to judge from the dilapidated coats and trousers, which yet clothed men of parts and of power.”
Kipps by H. G. Wells: “There's some of the serious books I've been reading lately--on that table; Sartor Resartus--Mrs. Twaddletome's Pond Life”
Love and Mr Lewisham by H. G. Wells: “He instantly forgot the vague design of lending her his "_Sartor Resartus_" in his curiosity to learn more about her home.”
John Barleycorn by Jack London: “They knew all about "Snow Bound" and "Sartor Resartus"; but the American editors of 1899 did not want such truck.”
The Job by Sinclair Lewis: “listed among library books: "Home Needlework, Sartor Resartus, and Ships that Pass in the Night"”
The Elm-Tree on the Mall by Anatole France: “a greater work than 'Gargantua' or 'Don Quixote' or 'Sartor Resartus' or 'Tristram Shandy'”
The Dark Flower by John Galsworthy: “Her present was on the sideboard, a book called 'Sartor Resartus.'”
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges: “Así procedió Carlyle en "Sartor Resartus"; así Butler en "The Fair Haven"; obras que tienen la imperfección de ser libros también, no menos tautológicos que los otros.”