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Author of the famed and scandalous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater , Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) has long lacked a full-fledged biography. His friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods—including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle—have long placed him at the center of nineteenth century literary studies. He was a man who engaged with nearly every facet of literary culture, including the roles played by publishers, booksellers, and journalists in literary production, dissemination and evaluation. His writing was a tremendous influence on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, and William Burroughs. De Quincey is a fascinating (and topical) figure for other reasons, too: a self-mythologizing autobiographer whose attitudes to drug-induced creativity and addiction strike highly resonant chords for a contemporary readership. Robert Morrison’s biography passionately argues for the critical importance and enduring value of this neglected icon of English literature.
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The English Opium Eater, Robert Morrison
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- Année de publication
- 2010
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- Titre
- The English Opium Eater
- Sous-titre
- A Biography of Thomas De Quincey
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Robert Morrison
- Éditeur
- Pegasus Books
- Publié
- 2010
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 462
- ISBN10
- 160598132X
- ISBN13
- 9781605981321
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Histoire, États-Unis, Meurtres, Biographies, Littérature britannique, 19e siècle, Grande-Bretagne, XVIIIe siècle, Romantisme, Drogues et dépendance, Personnages littéraires
- Évaluation
- 3,85 sur 5
- Description
- Author of the famed and scandalous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater , Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) has long lacked a full-fledged biography. His friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods—including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle—have long placed him at the center of nineteenth century literary studies. He was a man who engaged with nearly every facet of literary culture, including the roles played by publishers, booksellers, and journalists in literary production, dissemination and evaluation. His writing was a tremendous influence on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, and William Burroughs. De Quincey is a fascinating (and topical) figure for other reasons, too: a self-mythologizing autobiographer whose attitudes to drug-induced creativity and addiction strike highly resonant chords for a contemporary readership. Robert Morrison’s biography passionately argues for the critical importance and enduring value of this neglected icon of English literature.