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Thomas de Quincey

Knowledge and Power

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. Frederick Burwick
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Part of the book series: Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories (ROPTCH)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Knowledge and Power

    • Frederick Burwick
    Pages 1-23

  3. Casuistry and Eidoloclasm

    • Frederick Burwick
    Pages 24-42

  4. Sir Walter Scott and the Literary Pirates

    • Frederick Burwick
    Pages 43-66

  5. Murder and the Aesthetics of Violence

    • Frederick Burwick
    Pages 67-87

  6. Shakespearean Involutes

    • Frederick Burwick
    Pages 88-111

  7. Miltonic Overtures

    • Frederick Burwick
    Pages 112-141

  8. Wordsworthean Associations

    • Frederick Burwick
    Pages 142-160

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 161-192
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About this book

This book examines what De Quincey called 'psychological criticism', a mode of studying how 'literature of power' arouses ideas and images dormant in the subconscious. He explores this 'power' by means of an introspective analysis of the effects produced in his own mind by reading Shakespeare and Milton, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Discussion of De Quincey's critical and narrative prose includes his skilled rewriting of a German forgery of a Waverly novel, as well as such better known works as 'Suspiria de Profundis', Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts.' 'On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth', 'The English Mail-Coach,' and 'Wordsworth's Poetry.' New insight into each of these works is provided by drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished manuscripts.

About the author

Frederick Burwick is a Research Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

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