The infection of Thomas De Quincey : a psychopathology of imperialism
Barrell, John1991
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Thomas de Quincey, best known for "Confessions of an Opium Eater", was a journalist and propagandist of Empire, of oriental aggression and of racial paranoia. This account of De Quincey's fears of all things oriental is also an analysis of the psychopathology of mid-Victorian imperialist culture.
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New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1991.
Collation:
xii,235p. : ill., 1 port. ; 24cm.
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Bibliography: p210-224. - Includes index.
ISBN:
9780300049329
Dewey class:
828.809
Language:
English
Subject:
De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859 -- Knowledge -- OrientDe Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859 -- PsychologyAuthors, English -- 19th century -- PsychologyEnglish literature -- Asian influencesLiterature -- Psychological aspectsPsychoanalysis and literature -- EnglandEast and West in literatureImperialism in literatureOrient -- In literature
BRN:
642620
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