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The English Opium-Eater
- A Biography of Thomas De Quincey
Engelsk Paperback
The English Opium-Eater
- A Biography of Thomas De Quincey
Engelsk Paperback

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Definitive life of the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, journalist, political commentator and biographer.

Thomas De Quincey''s friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods - including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle - have long placed him at the centre of 19th-century literary studies. De Quincey also stands at the meeting point in the culture wars between Edinburgh and London; between high art and popular taste; and between the devotees of the Romantic imagination and those of hack journalism. His writing was a tremendous influence on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, William Burroughs and Peter Ackroyd.

De Quincey is a fascinating (and topical) figure for other reasons too: a self-mythologizing autobiographer whose attitudes to drug-induced creativity and addiction strike highly resonant chords for a contemporary readership. Robert Morrison''s biography passionately argues for the critical importance and enduring value of this neglected essayist, critic and biographer.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
496
ISBN-13:
9780753827895
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0753827891
Udg. Dato:
11 nov 2010
Længde:
38mm
Bredde:
136mm
Højde:
216mm
Forlag:
Orion Publishing Co
Oplagsdato:
11 nov 2010
Forfatter(e):
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