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Can I read Thomas de Quincey: Knowledge and Power (Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories) on EtoBox?
Thomas de Quincey: Knowledge and Power (Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories) by Frederick Burwick is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Thomas de Quincey: Knowledge and Power (Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories) about?
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 'Su
Who reads Thomas de Quincey: Knowledge and Power (Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Frederick Burwick
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786610282449
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, History, Psychology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
