| de Quincey Reviewed: Thomas de Quincey's Critical Reception, 1821-1994 Contributor(s): North (Author) |
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ISBN: 1571130721 ISBN-13: 9781571130723 Publisher: Camden House (NY) OUR PRICE: $71.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Collections |
| Dewey: 828.809 |
| LCCN: 96046387 |
| Physical Information: 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Julian North's De Quincey Reviewed is the first book to chart the history of De Quincey's critical reception, from the 1820s to the present. It discusses the fluctuations of his reputation in the course of his successive critical reincarnations - as madman, aesthete, fin-de-sicle degenerate, modernist, and imperialist. New insight is given into his significance as a focus for key critical controversies and movements: the Victorian critique of autobiography and style; the debate over literature and addiction; and twentieth-century phenomenological criticism. |