Abstract
World literature is a ‘travelling concept’ that describes the intensification of the international and interdisciplinary exchange of contents, norms and values. A historical reading of Goethe's invention of the term in 1827 will show that ‘travelling’ also indicates how far the concept of world literature is in itself susceptible to travelling, to transfer and transmission. Depending on the different functional, cultural and disciplinary contexts, it can be used in very different ways. Studying Carlyle's Sartor Resartus from this perspective will help us to determine why the discursive beginnings of the term go necessarily hand in hand with strategies of institutional restraint and societal control.
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