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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Thomas 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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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 …