De Quincey's Romanticism

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-521-57236-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 659 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

Margaret Russett uses the example of Thomas De Quincey, the nineteenth-century essayist best remembered for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and his memoirs of Wordsworth and Coleridge, to examine the idea of the 'minor' author, and how it is related to what we now call the Romantic canon. The case of De Quincey, neither a canonical figure nor a disenfranchised marginal author, offers a point of access to specifically Romantic problems of literary transmission and periodization. Taking an intertextual approach, Russett situates De Quincey's career against the works of Wordsworth and Coleridge; the essays of Lamb, Hazlitt, and other writers for the London Magazine; and discourses of ethics and political economy which are central to the problem of determining literary value. De Quincey's Romanticism shows how De Quincey helped to shape the canon by which his career was defined.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Russett, Margaret

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Conversions: Wordsworth's gothic interpreter; 2. Transmissions: composing The Convention of Cintra; 3. Impersonations: the magazinist as minor author; 4. Reproductions: opium, prostitution and poetry; 5. Appropriations: the counter-lives of the poet; Epilogue: minor Romanticism; Notes; Index.