Making What Will Suffice
Carlyle’s Fetishism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12411581 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yoon Sun Lee (0000-0001-8229-9955, Wellesley College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 173-193 |
| Publication date | 2001-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1060150301291116 |
| OpenAlex | W2077356805 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
C ARLYLE 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 Sewell 1 complains
Admiration · Aesthetics · Art · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Fetishism · Key (lock · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2003 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |