Thomas De Quincey between Romantics and Victorians

Asserting himself as a scholar, De Quincey expresses both the need for an alter ego and the fear of losing his own identity as an author in the process. Longing for the past, unsure of his own value and status, he sees the emergence of Victorian modernity as a space where to define and lose himself;...

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Main Author: Céline Lochot
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2018-06-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/3641