"His Canaille of an audience": Thomas De Quincey and the revolution in reading

Studies in Romanticism

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 7-22

  Duffy, Cian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 49049121301     PISSN: 00393762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25601715     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Charles I. Patterson, "De Quincey's Conception of the Novel as Literature of Power," PMLA 70.1 (1955): 375.
2. The Works of Thomas De Quincey, ed. G Lindop et al., 21 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2000-2003), hereafter cited as Works.
3. D. D. Devlin, De Quincey, Wordsworth and the Art of Prose (London: Macmillan, 1983) 26.
4. J. P. Klancher, The Making of English Reading Audiences, 1790-1832 (Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1987).
5. Clifford Siskin The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change in Britain, 1700-1830 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1998).
6. J. E. Jordan, Thomas De Quincey, Literary Critic: His Method and Achievement (Berkeley: U of California P, 1952);
7. S. K. Proctor, Thomas De Quincey's Theory of Literature (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1943).
8. John Forster, The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith, 4 vols. (London, 1848).
9. F. C. Schlosser, History of the Eighteenth Century and of the Nineteenth till the Overthrow of the French Empire, with Particular Attention to Mental Cultivation and Progress, trans. D. Davidson, 8 vols. (London, 1843-52).
10. David Wright, ed., Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968) 368.
11. Gary Kelly, The English Jacobin Novel, 1780-1805 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1976).
12. Gary Kelly, English Fiction of the Romantic Period, 1789-1830 (New York: Longman, 1989).
13. De Quincey, "The Antigone of Sophocles as Represented on the Edinburgh Stage" first published in the February and March 1846 numbers of Tait's Magazine.
14. Grevel Lindop, ed., Confessions of an English Opimn-Eater, and Other Writings (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995) 211-12. Hereafter cited in the text as EMC.
15. John Barrell, The Infection of Thomas De Quincey: A Psychopathology of Imperialism (London: Yale UP, 1991) 207, n. 6.
16. Charles Rzepka, Sacramental Commodities: Gift, Text, and the Sublime in De Quincey (Boston: U of Massachusetts P, 1995) 5-6, 8-9.
17. E. Michael Thron, "Thomas De Quincey and the Fall of Literature," in R. L. Snyder, ed., Thomas De Quincey: Bicentenary Studies (London and Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1985) 5-6.