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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      26 October 2011
      04 December 1997
      ISBN:
      9780511582974
      9780521572361
      9780521030502
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511582974
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.575kg, 312 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.492kg, 312 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Literary Theory, English Literature 1700-1830
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (25)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Literary Theory, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (25)
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    Margaret Russett uses the example of Thomas De Quincey, the nineteenth-century essayist best remembered for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and his memoirs of Wordsworth and Coleridge, to examine the idea of the 'minor' author, and how it is related to what we now call the Romantic canon. The case of De Quincey, neither a canonical figure nor a disenfranchised marginal author, offers a point of access to specifically Romantic problems of literary transmission and periodization. Taking an intertextual approach, Russett situates De Quincey's career against the works of Wordsworth and Coleridge; the essays of Lamb, Hazlitt, and other writers for the London Magazine; and discourses of ethics and political economy which are central to the problem of determining literary value. De Quincey's Romanticism shows how De Quincey helped to shape the canon by which his career was defined.

    Reviews

    "Russett's impressive study is a shining addition to a growing corpus of fine criticism devoted to a writer whose minor standing has paradoxically become the hallmark of his considerable distinction." Nineteenth-Century Literature

    "...Russett's book is a smart, illuminating examintation of the role minor writing plays in the production of the Romantic canon." Romantic Circles Reviews

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