F. Burwick

Thomas de Quincey

Knowledge and Power

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines what De Quincey called 'psychological criticism', a mode of studying how 'literature of power' arouses ideas and images dormant in the subconscious. He explores this 'power' by means of an introspective analysis of the effects produced in his own mind by reading Shakespeare and Milton, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Discussion of De Quincey's critical and narrative prose includes his skilled rewriting of a German forgery of a Waverly novel, as well as such better known works as 'Suspiria de Profundis', Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts.' 'On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth', 'The English Mail-Coach,' and 'Wordsworth's Poetry.' New insight into each of these works is provided by drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished manuscripts.

Produktdetails

• Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-41632-5
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9781349416325
• ISBN-10: 1349416320
• Artikelnr.: 45068519

Autorenporträt

Frederick Burwick is a Research Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction Knowledge and Power Sir Walter Scott and the Literary Pirates Murder and the Aesthetics of Violence Shakespearean Involutes Miltonic Overtures Wordsworthean Associations Bibliography