De Quincey's Romanticism: Canonical Minority and the Forms of Transmission

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Cambridge University Press, 04.12.1997 - 295 Seiten
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.

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Wordsworths gothic interpreter
14
composing The Convention of Cintra
52
the magazinist as minor author
92
opium prostitution and poetry
135
the counterlives of the poet
178
minor Romanticism
223
Notes
247
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