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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"De Quincey"”.
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The Romantic Critics' Conception of The Novel: Hazlitt, Coleridge, and De Quincey
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Terræ Incognitæ as Ego Incognita: Mapping Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
… the place of geography in literature and demonstrates that maps can add to our knowledge of literature. I use Richard Horwood’s 1792–9 Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster to visualise the movements of Thomas De Quincey in his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by plotting his …
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Touching Time: Forms of Romantic Temporality
… the elevation of sight as a more advanced mode of perception, suitable for observing experiments or appreciating art, over the more base sense of touch. Questions of tactility tend to be absorbed into histories of materiality or the body, and this terminological slippage becomes particularly …
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Beyond the Flâneur: Walking, Passage and Crossing in London and Paris in the Nineteenth Century
… (1806-1869). It suggests that before it was made famous by Baudelaire, this urban observer emerged out of French and British print culture, and of crossings between them. It has endured because it is a protean, composite figure which weaves in and out of literature, journalism and essays. Its …
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The age of the magazine: literary consumption and metropolitan culture, 1815-1825
… a literary culture that was not as clearly divided as either traditional Romantic criticism or New Historicist cultural critiques have suggested. Rather, magazines stand at a midpoint between high and low cultures, neither of which could define itself except in relation to the other. I argue …
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Reading Dario Argento's 'Inferno' (Italy)
… Argento continues his tradition of building a dense network of allusions that refers to his own and others’ films, as well as to canonical and ‘popular’ works of literature, politics, music, and film theory. The poetic effect of these elements, in combination with the film’s lack of continuity …
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How She Haunts: Missed Endings, the Fragmentary, and the Female Figure in British Romanticism
… Three Graves,” “Christabel,” and “Kubla Khan”), De Quincey (<em>Suspiria de Profundis</em>), and Keats (“La Belle Dame Sans Merci” and <em>Lamia</em>). In critical discussions of the Romantic fragment, it is most often referred to as incomplete, lacking closure, and unintentionally so. The …
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The Literature of Loss: Modernity, Poetic Prose, and the Tendency Toward Contradiction
<p>This study traces the historical and formal development of poetic prose beginning in the late eighteenth century through the mid to late nineteenth century. Drawing on research in poetics, narrative theory, genre theory, philosophy, and socioeconomic analysis and ideology, this study positions …