Intro; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Oaks and Acorns; 1 Thomas Carlyle, Orestes Brownson, and the Laboring Classes; 2 Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and History; 3 The Object as Symbol; 4 Thomas Carlyle's Influence on George Meredith; 5 John Roddam Spencer Stanhope and the Aesthetic Male Body; Part II: Orders of Tradition; 6 The "Temporary Figure (Zeitbild)" of the Author in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Mathilde Blind's Tarantella: A Romance; 7 Shakespearean Negotiations; 8 On Pilgrimage's Form in Modern Times; 9 Subverting Modernity in Carlyle's "Signs of the Times" and Past and Present; 10 The Counter-Enlightenments of Thomas Carlyle; 11 "Conditioning" as Influence; 12 "The Mysteries of Predisposition"; 13 Carlyle in Comparative Perspective; Part III: Reputational Networks; 14 The Mustard Seed of British Socialism; 15 Influence as Palimpsest; 16 G. K. Chesterton and the "Shaggy Old Malcontent"; 17 Finnegans Wake as "Sartor's Risorted" or Sartor Retold; 18 Refashioning Carlyle; Bibliography; Index; About the Editors and Contributors.