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The infection of Thomas De Quincey : a psychopathology of imperialism / John Barrell.
Van Pelt Library PR4538.O74 B37 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barrell, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859--Knowledge and learning--Orient.
- De Quincey, Thomas.
- De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859.
- De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859--Psychology.
- Psychology.
- Authors, English--19th century--Psychology.
- Authors, English.
- Psychoanalysis and literature.
- East and West in literature.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Orient--In literature.
- Orient.
- Draper.
- Asia--Orient.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1991.
- Summary:
- Best known for his work Confessions of an English Opium Eater, the Victorian writer Thomas De Quincey was a journalist and propagandist of Empire, of oriental aggression, and of racial paranoia who harbored and expressed the most ferocious and brutal denunciation of Orientals. This remarkable book is an account of De Quincey's fears of all things oriental; it is also an extraordinary analysis of the psychopathology of mid-Victorian imperialist culture.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300049323
- OCLC:
- 22507932
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