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A Genealogy of the Modern Self - Thomas De Quincey and the Intoxication of Writing (Hardcover)
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A Genealogy of the Modern Self - Thomas De Quincey and the Intoxication of Writing (Hardcover)
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As this book's title suggests, its main argument is that Thomas De
Quincey's literary output, which is both a symptom and an effect of
his addictions to opium and writing, plays an important and mostly
unacknowledged role in the development of modern and modernist
forms of subjectivity. At the same time, the book shows that
intoxication, whether in the strict medical sense or in its less
technical meaning ("strong excitement," "trance," "ecstasy"), is
central to the ways in which modernity, and literary modernity in
particular, functions and defines itself. In both its theoretical
and practical implications, intoxication symbolizes and often comes
to constitute the condition of the alienated artist in the age of
the market. The book also offers new readings of the Confessions
and some of De Quincey's posthumous writings, as well as an
extended analysis of his relatively neglected diary. The discussion
of De Quincey's work also elicits new insights into his
relationship with William and Dorothy Wordsworth, as well as his
imaginary investment in Coleridge.
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