de Quincey's Disciplines

ISBN-13: 9780198112853 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994

School of English and America Josephine (Lecturer McDonagh

Opis

Drawing on broad range of rarely studied sources, De Quincey's Disciplines reveals the English Opium-Eater to be a more complex and contradictory figure than the latter-day Romantic and psychedelic dreamer usually portrayed. Taking a theoretical, new historicist stance, Josephine McDonagh's innovative examination of De Quincey's less frequently scrutinized works recontextualizes De Quincey as a true interdisciplinarian, aspiring to participation in the majorintellectual project of his time: the formation of new fields of knowledge, and the attempt to unify these into an organic whole.

Recenzje

a signal and original contribution ... McDonagh's argument is manifold, far-reaching, and fine-grained. ...Mcdonagh is good. De Quincey's Disciplines will prove indispensable to De Quincey scholarship for a long time to come and an important contribution to cultural criticism in general. The author's sophisticated application of current historical methods will not only offer a model but pose a challenge to its successors, many of which, I expect, will derive from it their primary inspiration.