De Quincey's Romanticism
Subtitle: Canonical Minority and the Forms of Transmission (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780521572361
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Romanticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; Great Britain; De Quincey, Thomas; De Quincey, Thomas,--1785-1859--Criticism and interpretation; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Transmission of texts; Authorship; 1785-1859; 19th century; Criticism and interpretation; De Quincey, Thomas,; History
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?"