Buch, Englisch, Band 41, 192 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 386 mm x 579 mm
Buch, Englisch, Band 41, 192 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 386 mm x 579 mm
Reihe: Literary Criticism in Perspect
ISBN: 978-1-57113-072-3
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
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-siècle 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.