de Quincey's Disciplines

By Josephine McDonagh

Drawing on a broad range of rarely studied sources, De Quincey's Disciplines reveals the English Opium-Eater to be a more complex and contradictory figure than the latter-day Romantic and psychedelic dreamer usually portrayed. Taking a theoretical, new historicist stance, Josephine McDonagh's innovative examination of De Quincey's less frequently scrutinized works recontextualizes De Quincey as a true interdisciplinarian, aspiring to participation in the major intellectual project of his time: the formation of new fields of knowledge, and the attempt to unify these into an organic whole.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198112858
• ISBN13: 9780198112853
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.8"