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Sacramental commodities : gift, text, and the sublime in De Quincey

Title
Sacramental commodities : gift, text, and the sublime in De Quincey / Charles J. Rzepka.
Author
Rzepka, Charles J.
Publication
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Description
xii, 340 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859
  • Drug addicts > History and criticism
  • Authors, English > History and criticism
  • Confession stories > History and criticism
  • Power (Social sciences) in literature
  • Sublime, The, in literature
  • Sacraments in literature
  • Autobiography
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-323) and index.
Contents
Pt. 1. Power and the Sublime: Divine Gifts and Demonic Commodities. 1. "Why Confess at All?" 2. Opium and Power: Some Versions of the Sublime and an Economics of Reading. 3. The Christology of the Confessions -- Pt. 2. The Unconfessed. 4. The Family Origins of Power. 5. Home at Grasmere -- Pt. 3. Dreams. 6. The Dream of a Life - Triumph, Persecution, Resurrection, and Parousia. 7. The "Impalpable" Agencies of Capital.
ISBN
  • 0870239619 (alk. paper)
  • 0870239627 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
94038875
OCLC
  • 31328929
  • ocm31328929
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries