TY - BOOK ID - 8806040 TI - De Quincey's romanticism PY - 1997 VL - 25 SN - 0521572363 0521030501 0511582978 0511006365 9780511006364 9780511582974 PB - Cambridge, U.K New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Authorship KW - Romanticism KW - Transmission of texts. KW - Canon (Literature) KW - Classics, Literary KW - Literary canon KW - Literary classics KW - Best books KW - Criticism KW - Literature KW - Literary transmission KW - Manuscript transmission KW - Textual transmission KW - Criticism, Textual KW - Editions KW - Manuscripts KW - Authoring (Authorship) KW - Writing (Authorship) KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - De Quincey, Thomas, KW - Quincey, Thomas de, KW - De Kvinsi, Tomas, KW - Kvinsi, Tomas de, KW - De Quincy, Thomas, KW - Quincy, Thomas de, KW - DeQuincey, Thomas, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Transmission of texts KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8806040 AB - 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. ER -