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MAKING WHAT WILL SUFFICE: CARLYLE’S FETISHISM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2002

Yoon Sun Lee
Yoon Sun Lee
Affiliation:
Wellesley College
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Abstract

CARLYLE AS FETISHIST: this oldest of charges against Carlyle holds the key to his new importance as cultural critic. Carlyle’s earliest reviewers singled out for disapproval the indiscriminate admiration Carlyle seemed to feel for idols chosen according to an obscure logic of personal need or affinity. In the Quarterly Review of September 1840, for example, William Sewell1 complains:

Type
Research Article
Information
Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , March 2001 , pp. 173 - 193
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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