Studies in Romanticism articles from March 2005

Studies in Romanticism archives from March 2005

Introduction.(criticism and interpretation of Thomas De Quincey's works)(Editorial)
March 22, 2005... NO NINETEENTH-CENTURY WRITER HAS BEEN SO SORELY IN NEED OF A new edition of his works as has Thomas De Quincey. All previous editions, whatever their value, have been sadly deficient in editorial practice and scope. The recent appearance of the...

"His canaille of an audience": Thomas De Quincey and the revolution in reading.(works of an English writer)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... IN A JULY 1907 LETTER TO H. S. SALT, EMILY DE QUINCEY CLAIMED THAT her father's taste in prose fiction "never got beyond the Mrs. Radcliffe stage." "He was but a poor judge of a novel," Emily affirms, "he could make nothing of the modern novel...

Degrading forms of pantomime: Englishness and shame in De Quincey.(portrayal of nationalism )(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... Nothing, indeed, is more revolting to English feelings, than the spectacle of a human being obtruding on our notice his moral ulcers or scars, and tearing away that 'decent drapery', which time, or indulgence to human frailty, may have drawn...

De Quincey's imperial systems.(portrayal of nationalism)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... MUCH OF THE BEST RECENT CRITICISM OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY HAS FOCUSED on the relationship between De Quincey and his erstwhile friend and mentor, William Wordsworth. Charles Rzepka and Alina Clej, for instance, read De Quincey's friendship and...

De Quincey, Malthus and the anachronism-effect.(portrayal of malthusianism)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... READERS HAVE LONG BEEN PERPLEXED BY THE QUESTION OF DE QUINCEY'S place in literary history. A writer whose works traverse five decades, from some juvenilia and an early diary written in 1803, to his death in 1859, he is most often taken to be a...

Grevel Lindop, General Editor. The Works of Thomas De Quincey.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Grevel Lindop, General Editor. The Works of Thomas De Quincey. 21 volumes. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2000-2003. $925.00. Volumes 1-7 Until Pickering and Chatto's splendid new edition of his works began to appear in print some five...

Frederick Burwick. Thomas De Quincey: Knowledge and Power.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Frederick Burwick. Thomas De Quincey: Knowledge and Power. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. 192. $59.95. In Thomas De Quincey: Knowledge and Power, Frederick Burwick brings together four essays delivered at the Wordsworth summer conference in...