LEADER 03309nam 22004935 450 001 9910154598803321 005 20230823004321.0 010 $a0-8047-8076-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804780766 035 $a(CKB)3710000000971653 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5412763 035 $a(DE-B1597)564501 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804780766 035 $a(OCoLC)1178770043 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000971653 100 $a20200723h20201995 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA Genealogy of the Modern Self $eThomas De Quincey and the Intoxication of Writing /$fAlina Clej 210 1$aStanford, CA : $cStanford University Press, $d[2020] 210 4$dİ1995 215 $a1 online resource (xxiv, 348 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-8047-2393-1 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tContents -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. An Unprecedented Discourse -- $t2. How to Publish Oneself -- $t3. Prodigality and the Regime of Opium -- $t4. Prodigal Narratives -- $t5. The Dream Work -- $t6. Paideia -- $t7. Pseudospiritual Exercises -- $t8. Rhetorical Exercises -- $t9. Pathos as Technique -- $t10. What Shall Be My Character? -- $t11. Distance -- $t12. "Real" Passion -- $t13. The Literature of Power -- $t14. The Art of Echoing -- $t15. Gothic Confessions: The Rape of the Brain -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aAs 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. 606 $aAuthorship$xPsychological aspects 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zEngland 606 $aSelf in literature 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh$2bisacsh 615 0$aAuthorship$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aSelf in literature. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. 676 $a828/.809 700 $aClej$b Alina, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0457736 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154598803321 996 $aA Genealogy of the Modern Self$92868581 997 $aUNINA