Word: resartus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impossible hour, admittedly, but not devoid of its virtues: H.M. Jones is offering what is probably the last year of his epic Hum 133a (Thought and Literature in the Nineteenth Century) which marshals, among others. Pere Goriot, Wuthering Heights, Sartor Resartus, Bleak House, Faust, and The Red and the Black into a tidy and orderly cultural unity. Professor Myron Gilmore, the hour's other virtue, presents three disunited centuries (roughly, 1300-1600) in an even stiffer course, his History 130: "The Age of the Renaissance and Reformation." Devious Machiavelli and the sainted Thomas More top the reading list...
...canebrake confusion of manner can only be deliberate-an esthetic and philosophic ruse to exclude reason from the genetic and historical workings of man's fate. Peter De Vries's brilliant parody takes account of this and gives fair warning to those who attempt to write Sartoris Resartus; it may be easy to fake the Spanish moss but not the tree it grows...