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Thomas De Quincey: Knowledge and Power (Romanticism in Perspective)

By Frederick Burwick

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0333774035, 9780333774038, 9780230005808
LCC
PR4537 .B87 2001
Open Library ID
OL6794334M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
547 kB (560177 bytes)
Pages
208\207
Topic
Literature Literary
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book examines what De Quincy called "psychological criticism," a mode of studying how "literature of power" arouses ideas and images dormant in the subconscious. He explores this "power" by means of an introspective analysis of the effects produced in his own mind by reading Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, and Coleridge. Discussion of De Quincey's critical and narrative prose includes his skilled re-writing of a German forgery of a Waverley novel, as well as such better known works as "Suspiria de Profundis," "Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts," "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth," "The English Mail-Coach," and "Wordsworth's Poetry." New insight into each of these works is provided by drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished manuscripts.

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