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: | 978-0-521-57236-1 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1997 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $153.95 |
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.