De Quincey's Writings: Historical and critical essays. 1853
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 1859
Category :
ISBN :
Encyclopedia of Life Writing
Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1141 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136787445
Book Description
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Romantic Autobiography in England
Author : Eugene Stelzig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317061632
Book Description
Taking into account the popularity and variety of the genre, this collaborative volume considers a wide range of English Romantic autobiographical writers and modes, including working-class autobiography, the familiar essay, and the staged presence. In the wake of Rousseau's Confessions, autobiography became an increasingly popular as well as a literary mode of writing. By the early nineteenth century, this hybrid and metamorphic genre is found everywhere in English letters, in prose and poetry by men and women of all classes. As such, it resists attempts to provide a coherent historical account or establish a neat theoretical paradigm. The contributors to Romantic Autobiography in England embrace the challenge, focusing not only on major writers such as William Wordsworth, De Quincey, and Mary Shelley, but on more recent additions to the canon such as Mary Robinson, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Hays. There are also essays on the scandalous Memoirs of Mrs. Billington and on Joseph Severn's autobiographical scripting of himself as "the friend of Keats." The result is an exploratory and provisional mapping of the field, provocative rather than exhaustive, intended to inspire future scholarship and teaching.
Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 6119 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
The master essayist Thomas De Quincey, famous for his ‘Confessions of an English Opium-Eater’, produced a large body of writing, including works in history, fiction, political economy and biography. This comprehensive eBook presents De Quincey’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to De Quincey’s life and works * Concise introductions to the books * ALL the published books, with individual contents tables * Rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Includes both the first edition text of ‘Confessions of an English Opium-Eater’ and the later revised and extended edition of 1856 – available in no other collection * Includes De Quincey’s rare essays * Features a bonus biography - discover De Quincey’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Books CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER (ORIGINAL 1821 TEXT) CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER (REVISED 1856 TEXT) POPULAR TALES AND ROMANCES OF THE NORTHERN NATIONS WALLADMOR KLOSTERHEIM, OR THE MASQUE THE GALLERY OF PORTRAITS RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LAKE POETS REVOLT OF THE TARTARS THE AVENGER: A NARRATIVE THE LOGIC OF THE POLITICAL ECONOMY SUSPIRIA DE PROFUNDIS THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH JOAN OF ARC THE CAESARS AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES SELECTIONS GRAVE AND GAY CHINA NOTE BOOK OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER MEMORIALS AND OTHER PAPERS ANALECTS FROM RICHTER INTRODUCTION TO ‘DE BELLO GALLICO AND OTHER COMMENTARIES OF CAIUS JULIUS CAESAR’ THE UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY THE POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY The Essays BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS NARRATIVE AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS The Biography THOMAS DE QUINCEY by Leslie Stephen Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
Life Writing and Space
Author : Eveline Kilian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317105214
Book Description
How does our ability, desire or failure to locate ourselves within space, and with respect to certain places, effect the construction and narration of our identities? Approaching recordings and interpretations of selves, memories and experiences through the lens of theories of space and place, this book brings the recent spatial turn in the Humanities to bear upon the work of life writing. It shows how concepts of subjectivity draw on spatial ideas and metaphors, and how the grounding and uprooting of the self is understood in terms of place. The different chapters investigate ways in which selves are reimagined through relocation and the traversing of spaces and texts. Many are concerned with the politics of space: how racial, social and sexual topographies are navigated in life writing. Some examine how focusing on space, rather than time, impacts upon auto/biographical form. The book blends sustained theoretical reflections with textual analyses and also includes experimental contributions that explore independencies between spaces and selves by combining criticism with autobiography. Together, they testify that life writing can hardly be thought of without its connection to space.
Autobiographical Sketches
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2018-08-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781725186880
Book Description
Autobiographical Sketches by Thomas De Quincey Autobiographic Sketches, sometimes referred to as the Autobiography of Thomas De Quincey, is a work first published in 1853. "Sketches" suggests the mode of composition of this work. De Quincey did not deliberately plan and forthwith compose his autobiography. Rather he began by contributing reminiscent articles to periodicals, a practice which he continued until he had written and published about 30 essays. In 1853, he collected these articles, revised, enlarged and polished them with his customary diligence, and gave them to the public under the title Autobiographic Sketches. As a matter of fact, the autobiography of De Quincey, more than that of almost anyone else, is fragmentary - a succession of sketches loosely connected and widely scattered. De Quincey lived from early childhood in a dream world; the record of his successive dreams constitutes his true inner autobiography. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 1896
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ISBN :
Book Description
Romantic Autobiography in England
Author : Professor Eugene Stelzig
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1409475468
Book Description
Taking into account the popularity and variety of the genre, this collaborative volume considers a wide range of English Romantic autobiographical writers and modes, including working-class autobiography, the familiar essay, and the staged presence. In the wake of Rousseau's Confessions, autobiography became an increasingly popular as well as a literary mode of writing. By the early nineteenth century, this hybrid and metamorphic genre is found everywhere in English letters, in prose and poetry by men and women of all classes. As such, it resists attempts to provide a coherent historical account or establish a neat theoretical paradigm. The contributors to Romantic Autobiography in England embrace the challenge, focusing not only on major writers such as William Wordsworth, De Quincey, and Mary Shelley, but on more recent additions to the canon such as Mary Robinson, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Hays. There are also essays on the scandalous Memoirs of Mrs. Billington and on Joseph Severn's autobiographical scripting of himself as "the friend of Keats." The result is an exploratory and provisional mapping of the field, provocative rather than exhaustive, intended to inspire future scholarship and teaching.
The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey
Author : David Masson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752391480
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey by David Masson
Vermeer's Wager
Author : Ivan Gaskell
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 2000-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781861890726
Book Description
Vermeer's Wager stands at the intersection of art history and criticism, philosophy and museology. Using a familiar and celebrated painting by Johannes Vermeer as a case study, Ivan Gaskell explores what it might mean to know and use a work of art. He argues that art history as generally practiced, while successfully asserting certain claims to knowledge, fails to take into account aspects of the unique character of works of art. Our relationship to art is mediated, not only through reproduction – particularly photography – but also through displays in museums. In an analysis that ranges from seventeenth-century Holland, through mid-nineteenth-century France, to artists' and curators' practice today, Gaskell draws on his experience of Dutch art history, philosophy and contemporary art criticism. Anyone with an interest in Vermeer and the afterlife of his art will value this book, as will all who think seriously about the role of photography in perception and the core purposes of art museums.
