De Quincey's Romanticism
Subtitle: Canonical Minority and the Forms of Transmission (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780521030502
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Gothic & Romance; De Quincey, Thomas, --1785-1859--Criticism an; De Quincey, Thomas,--1785-1859--Criticism and interpretation; Literary Criticism & Collections / Gothic & Romance; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: Halfway through his revised Confessions, De Quincey pauses to ask a rhetorical question - " Was I then, in July 1802, really quoting from Wordsworth?"