Original Ambivalence: Autobiography and Violence in Thomas de Quincey by May, Gita

Original Ambivalence: Autobiography and Violence in Thomas de Quincey (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820426327)

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Original Ambivalence: Autobiography and Violence in Thomas de Quincey by May, Gita

Original Ambivalence: Autobiography and Violence in Thomas de Quincey

$64.95
Original Ambivalence: Autobiography and Violence in Thomas de Quincey by May, Gita

Original Ambivalence: Autobiography and Violence in Thomas de Quincey

$64.95
Format: Hardcover
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Original Ambivalence explores a powerful psychic and existential dilemma running through the works upon which the reputation of Thomas De Quincey (1785-1869) as a prose artist has always rested: the dream-centered, visionary autobiographies that began in 1821 with The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and concluded in 1849 with The English Mail-Coach. Employing the theories of and insights afforded by René Girard's fundamental anthropology, the study demonstrates how De Quincey's best known works both invoke and react against the Romantic assumptions of universality, originality, and authenticity which are their basis.

Author: Gita May,Matthew T. Schneider
ISBN-10: 0820426326
ISBN-13: 9780820426327
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1995
Pages: 197
Format: Hardcover
By Gita May
By Gita May
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The Author: Matthew Schneider is an assistant professor of English at Chapman University in Orange, California. A specialist in Britsh Romanticism, he received his M.A. from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles.

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