De Quincey's Disciplines |
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| Author:
| McDonagh, Josephine |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-811285-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1994 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $233.59AUD $295.00 |
Book Description:
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Drawing on broad range of rarely studied sources, De Quincey's Disciplines reveals the English Opium-Eater to be a more complex and contradictory figure than the latter-day Romantic and psychedelic dreamer usually portrayed. Taking a theoretical, new historicist stance, Josephine McDonagh's innovative examination of De Quincey's less frequently scrutinized works recontextualizes De Quincey as a true interdisciplinarian, aspiring to participation in themajor intellectual project of his...
More DescriptionDrawing on broad range of rarely studied sources, De Quincey's Disciplines reveals the English Opium-Eater to be a more complex and contradictory figure than the latter-day Romantic and psychedelic dreamer usually portrayed. Taking a theoretical, new historicist stance, Josephine McDonagh's innovative examination of De Quincey's less frequently scrutinized works recontextualizes De Quincey as a true interdisciplinarian, aspiring to participation in themajor intellectual project of his time: the formation of new fields of knowledge, and the attempt to unify these into an organic whole.