‘The silent Arachnes that weave unrestingly in our Imagination’: The Industrial Metaphoric Web in Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus

One of the staunchest critics of the ‘Age of Machinery’, who repeatedly condemned the spiritual degradation induced by the submission of men to machines, Thomas Carlyle was also fully aware of the interpretive challenges posed to the social critic by the perpetual metamorphoses of industrial society...

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Main Author: Marie Laniel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2018-06-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/3521