De Quincey's Romanticism Canonical Minority and the Forms of Transmission |
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| Author:
| Russett, Margaret |
| Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-511-58297-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2011 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | AUD $200.00 |
Book Description:
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Margaret Russett uses the example of Thomas De Quincey, the nineteenth-century essayist best remembered for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and his memoirs of Wordsworth and Coleridge, to examine the idea of the 'minor' author, and how it is related to what we now call the Romantic canon.
Margaret Russett uses the example of Thomas De Quincey, the nineteenth-century essayist best remembered for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and his memoirs of Wordsworth and Coleridge, to examine the idea of the 'minor' author, and how it is related to what we now call the Romantic canon.