Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey
Author: Thomas De QuinceyThe Works of Thomas De Quincey
Author: Thomas De QuinceyA Diary of Thomas de Quincey, 1803
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258828929
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.
The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey: Literary theory and criticism
Author: Thomas De Quincey“The” Works of Thomas De Quincey: The art of conversation
Author: Thomas De QuinceyThe Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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The Infection of Thomas De Quincey
Author: John BarrellPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300049329
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Thomas De Quincey, best known for his book Confessions of an English Opium Eater, was a journalist and propagandist of Empire, of oriental aggression, and of racial paranoia. The greater part of the fourteen volumes of his collected writings concerns the history, the colonial development, and increasingly the threat presented by the Orient in all its manifestations--human, animal, and microbiological. This remarkable book, which is an account of De Quincey's fears of all things oriental, is also an extraordinary analysis of the psychopathology of mid-Victorian imperialist culture. John Barrell paints a picture of De Quincey as a happy family man, apparently at ease with himself and with the rest of the world, but in fact harboring and expressing the most ferocious and brutal denunciation of Orientals of all kinds and dreaming of exacting from them a terrible retribution. Barrell shows that throughout De Quincey's writings there is a repeated story of the murder or violation of a female victim--either within or outside De Quincey's family--by an oriental criminal This story finds its way into almost everything he wrote: the various versions of his autobiography, his novels and short stories, his biographical and critical writings, his essays on politics, history, and science. Barrell attempts to understand this European terror of the East by an approach that is both historical and psychoanalytic. In particular, he explores the relation between childhood anxiety and imperial guilt in a body of writing in which the fear of violence within the family is imaged as a fear of the oriental, and the private and the public, the sexual and the imperial, the feminine and the exotic are endlessly intertwined. This book will be fascinating reading for those interested in Victorian literature, in psychoanalysis and its relation to literature, in the history of imperialism, and in debates about the characteristics and effects of colonial discourse.
The Works of Thomas De Quincey
Author: Thomas De QuinceyThe Uncollected Writings of Thomas De Quincey
Author: Thomas De QuinceyThomas De Quincey
Author: Robert MorrisonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134148445
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The ongoing critical fascination with Thomas De Quincey and the burgeoning recognition of the centrality of his writings to the Romantic age and beyond necessitates a critical examination of De Quincey. In this spirit, ten of the top De Quincey scholars in the world have come together in this volume to engage directly with the immense amount of new information to be published on De Quincey in the past two decades. The book features wide-ranging and incisive assessments of De Quincey as essayist, addict, economist, subversive, biographer, autobiographer, aesthete, innovator, hedonist, and much else.