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
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title_full Thomas De Quincey between Romantics and Victorians
title_fullStr Thomas De Quincey between Romantics and Victorians
title_full_unstemmed Thomas De Quincey between Romantics and Victorians
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publisher Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
series Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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2271-6149
publishDate 2018-06-01
description 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; and is at his most creative when he manages to embrace the global uncertainty.
topic romanticism
transition
identity
essay
creativity
in-between
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