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HIGH STYLE.("The Road of Excess")(Book Review)
When Oscar Wilde said that J. M. W. Turner had invented sunsets, he was joking, but he wasn't only joking. He meant that Turner had made the sunset into a subject of art, and therefore people were now looking at, talking about, and thinking about sunsets in a new way; thanks to Turner, all of us now see sunsets differently. In the parlance of contemporary critical theory--often a barbaric dialect, but sometimes a useful one--Turner invented the "discourse" of sunsets. It is in this sense that Marcus Boon, in his theory-afflicted but nonetheless lively study "The Road of Excess" (Harvard; $29.95), says that Thomas De Quincey, with the 1821 publication of "Confessions of an ...
- De Quincey's imperial systems.(portrayal of nationalism)(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism Frey, Anne March 22, 2005 700+ words
...OF THE BEST RECENT CRITICISM OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY HAS FOCUSED on the relationship between De Quincey and his erstwhile friend and mentor, William...Rzepka and Alina Clej, for instance, read De Quincey's friendship and subsequent hostility...
- De Quincey, Malthus and the anachronism-effect.(portrayal of...
- Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism McDonagh, Josephine March 22, 2005 700+ words
...LONG BEEN PERPLEXED BY THE QUESTION OF DE QUINCEY'S place in literary history. A writer...and across the Channel: for her, De Quincey is a pre-emptive modernist, a precursor...little sense of 'late' or 'early' De Quincey. It is as though De Quincey is always...
- De Quincey, Thomas
- Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography January 1, 2007 700+ words
Thomas De Quincey English writer Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) wrote prolifically and in numerous...analgesic, and psychoactive drug named in its title. De Quincey was considered one of the greatest prose stylists of the...
- Josephine McDonagh, De Quincey's Disciplines.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose Cafarelli, Annette Wheeler March 22, 1996 700+ words
Josephine McDonagh, De Quincey's Disciplines (Clarendon Press...Thanks to a spate of recent studies De Quincey is being rediscovered in the 1990s...of the modern standard edition of De Quincey's works currently underway. Josephine...
- Thomas De Quincey and the language of literature: or, on the necessity of...
- Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 McGrath, Brian September 22, 2007 700+ words
Critics have struggled with Thomas De Quincey's definition of literature for over...study for the would-be man of letters, De Quincey returns to and revises his definition...calls power. In the earlier text, De Quincey opposes literature to knowledge, claiming...
- Revisionary Gleam: De Quincey, Coleridge, and the High Romantic Argument.
- Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle Faflak, Joel September 22, 2001 700+ words
...Sanjiv Roberts, Revisionary Gleam: De Quincey, Coleridge, and the High Romantic Argument...Sanjiv Roberts in Revisionary Gleam: De Quincey, Coleridge, and the High Romantic Argument...Ironically, this maneuver still locates De Quincey and Coleridge after a Wordsworthianism...
- Revisionary Gleam: De Quincey, Coleridge, and the High Romantic Argument.(Book...
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Punter, David July 1, 2002 700+ words
Revisionary Gleam: De Quincey, Coleridge, and the High Romantic...pounds sterling]). This is a book on De Quincey which sets out with a specific argument...also produces an overall picture of De Quincey's life and work which is of considerable...
- Frederick Burwick. Thomas De Quincey: Knowledge and Power.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism Myers, Victoria March 22, 2005 700+ words
Frederick Burwick. Thomas De Quincey: Knowledge and Power. New York...Pp. 192. $59.95. In Thomas De Quincey: Knowledge and Power, Frederick...introspective mode" of criticism by which De Quincey aims to explain "the effects of...