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Guilty thing : a life of Thomas De Quincey / Frances Wilson.
| Author/creator | Wilson, Frances, 1964- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First American edition. |
| Publication | New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. |
| Description | 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The prelude -- Books -- Childhood and schooltime -- Schooltime (continued) -- Residence in London -- Summer vacation -- Residence at Oxford -- Retrospect: love of nature leading to love of mankind -- Home at Grasmere -- Residence in Dove Cottage and the revolution -- Residence in London and Grasmere -- The recluse -- Imagination, impaired and restored -- Same subject (continued) -- Postscript. |
| Abstract | "A biography of the last of the Romantics describes his rags-to-riches life and career as a journalist, translator, essayist and opium addict who inspired generations of writers with his emotional memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,"--NoveList. |
| Abstract | De Quincey became an opium-eater in college because of problems with pain, but the drug allowed him to divest himself of guilt as he became one of the most original journalists of his age. In examining the life of De Quincey, Wilson examines his obsessions with Wordsworth and Coleridge, and discusses his influence on Poe, Dostoevsky, Dickens, and others. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Biography. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| LCCN | 2015048947 |
| ISBN | 9780374167301 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0374167303 (hardcover) |
| Standard identifier# | 9780374167301 |
| Standard identifier# | 40026553103 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR4536 .W55 2016 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |