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De Quincey's Gothic masquerade / Patrick Bridgwater.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bridgwater, Patrick.
- Series:
- Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 0929-6999 ; 80.
- Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 80
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859--Criticism and interpretation.
- De Quincey, Thomas.
- De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859.
- Gothic literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 183 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2004.
- Contents:
- 1 Early Gothic Reading 11
- 1.1 Infant Literature 11
- 1.2 Thomas de Quincey and Charles de Moor 16
- 1.3 Teenage Gothic Reading 20
- 2 Teutophilia 28
- 2.1 Oxford, van Haren and Schwartzburg 28
- 2.2 J. H. Bohte 37
- 3 Translations from the German 46
- 3.1 Gillies's German Stories 46
- 3.2 De Quincey's Translations 53
- 3.2.1 The Sport of Fortune (1821) 54
- 3.2.2 The Fatal Marksman (1823) 55
- 3.2.3 Mr. Schnackenberger, The Dice, The King of Hayti (1823); The Incognito, The Defier of Ghosts (1824) 56
- 3.2.4 The Love-Charm (1825) 58
- 4 De Quincey and Gothic 60
- 4.1 Gothic 60
- 4.2 De Quincey's Gothic 63
- 4.3 De Quincey and The Devil's Elixir 74
- 5 Dream-Texts 80
- 5.1 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822) 85
- 5.2 Suspira de Profundis (1845-) 89
- 5.3 The English Mail-Coach (1849) 92
- 6 Essays 94
- 6.1 Historico-Critical Inquiry into the Origin of the Rosicrucians (1824) and Secret Societies (1847) 94
- 6.2 On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts (1827) 99
- 7 Rifacimenti 105
- 7.1 De Quincey, Gillies and rifacimento 105
- 7.2 The Somnambulist (1824) 108
- 7.3 Niels Klim's Journey to the World Under-Ground (1822-28) 108
- 7.4 Walladmor (1825) 110
- 7.4.1 The German Walladmor 110
- 7.4.2 De Quincey's view of the German Walladmor 115
- 7.4.3 The German Walladmor as Gothic Novel 118
- 7.4.4 De Quincey's Walladmor (1825) 121
- 7.4.5 Walladmor as Gothic Novel 124
- 7.5 Schloss Avalon (1827) 127
- 7.6 The Spanish Military Nun (1847-54) 129
- 8 Fictions 131
- 8.1 The Stranger's Grave (1823) 134
- 8.2 The Peasant of Portugal (1827) and The Cacadore (1828) 136
- 8.3 Klosterheim (1832) 137
- 8.4 The Household Wreck (1838) 148
- 8.5 The Avenger (1838) 151
- 9 De Quincey and Kafka 157.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-178) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9042018135
- OCLC:
- 57170559
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