De Quincey

Klappentext Published in 1881! this literary portrait of de Quincey reveals a man whose life oscillated between respectability! vagrancy and infamy. Zusammenfassung Published in 1881! Masson's biography of the self-confessed opium eater reveals a man whose life oscillated between respectability! vagrancy and infamy. Covering de Quincey's Confessions! as well as less well known essays! this literary portrait places the life in the context of the works. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prefatory note; 1. Parentage, infancy, and childhood; 2. Boyhood and changes of school, with a tour in Ireland; 3. Vagrancy in North Wales and in London; 4. Mainly at Oxford, with visits to London and the Lakes; 5. Bachelor life at the Lakes; 6. Married life at the Lakes: prostration under opium; provincial editorship; 7. Partly in London, partly at the Lakes, partly in Edinburgh: the Confessions and other articles in the London Magazine, and first articles in 'Blackwood'; 8. Wholly in Edinburgh: more contributions to Blackwood, with articles in Tait's Magazine; 9. Lasswade and Edinburgh, with visits to Glasgow: more contributions to Blackwood and Tait; 10. Lasswade, and No. 42 Lothian Street, Edinburgh: the Collected Works, last days of De Quincey; 11. De Quincey's writings: general characteristics; 12. De Quincey's writings: classification and review.

Product details

• Authors: David Masson, Masson David
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2011
• EAN: 9781108034593
• ISBN: 978-1-108-03459-3
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - English Men of Letters; English Men of Letters 39 Volume Set
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form