The life of the author : Thomas de Quincey / Andrew Keanie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keanie, Andrew, author.

Contributor:

John Wiley & Sons, publisher.

Series:

Life of the author

The life of the author

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859--Biography.

De Quincey, Thomas.

Romanticism--England--19th century.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, [2025]

Summary:

"This book is my attempt to write the life of De Quincey - the artist and critic most responsible for English Romanticism as we know it - from the inside out. It is not so much a cradle-to-grave biography as a life-writing experiment, taking seriously De Quincey's statement that 'our deepest thoughts and feelings pass to us through perplexed combinations of concrete objects, pass to us as involutes (if I may coin that word) in compound experiences incapable of being disentangled' (SW 270)"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Roots

Finding the Romantics

Founding Romanticism

Conditions of an English Poetry Reader

Into the Depths: William Wordsworth's Prelude

Death, Dreams and the Far East

We Are Britain

As Headstrong as an Allegory on the Banks of the Thames

Suspiria via Xenophobia

The Irish Question and Some Shapeshifting

Murder Most Preludial: Macbeth

Murder Most Metaphorical: Liquidating a Rival Life-Writer

Confessions of a Self-Justified Stylist

Conditions of an English Counterculture

Conditions of an English Leg-Puller

Conclusion: Suspiria De Quincey (Sighs from the Depths of English Romanticism).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781119833253

1119833256

OCLC:

1521388212