Frances Wilson

Guilty Thing (eBook, ePUB)

A Life of Thomas De Quincey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2016**
**New York Times Book Review, Times Literary Supplement and Guardian Best Books of 2016**
'Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.'

The last of the Romantics, Thomas De Quincey is a name synonymous with scandal. Modelling his character on Coleridge and his sensibility on Wordsworth, De Quincey took over the latter's former cottage and turned it into an opium den. Here, in the throes of his high, he nurtured his growing hatred of his former idols and wrote the notorious and fascinatingly strange essay 'On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts'.

Despite never achieving the literary deification of his contemporaries, his narrative style - scripted and sculptured emotional memoir - was to inspire generations of writers: Dickens, Dostoevsky, Virginia Woolf. James Joyce knew whole pages of his work off by heart and he was arguably the father of what we now call psychogeography.

Guilty Thing tells the riches-to-rags story of a dazzlingly complex and troubled figure, whose life was lived on the run, and affords De Quincey the literary biography he deserves.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408839768
• Artikelnr.: 44873996

Autorenporträt

Frances Wilson is a critic, journalist and the author of three works of non-fiction, Literary Seductions, The Courtesan's Revenge and The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, which won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2009. She lives in London with her daughter.

Inhaltsangabe

The Prelude
1. Books
2. Childhood and Schooltime
3. Schooltime (continued)
4. Residence in London
5. Summer Vacation
6. Residence at Oxford
7. Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind
8. Home at Grasmere
9. Residence in Dove Cottage and the Revolution
10. Residence in London and Grasmere
11. The Recluse
12. Imagination, Impaired and Restored
13. Same Subject (continued)
14. Postscript
The Tables Turned

Rezensionen

A writer's writer who will no doubt inspire her own cult following Amanda Foreman