Research Catalog

Title

De Quincey's Gothic masquerade / Patrick Bridgwater.

Author

Bridgwater, Patrick.

Publication

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2004.

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Description

183 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"De Quincey's GothicMasquerade is what has long been needed, a study of Thomas De Quincey's Gothicand Gothic-related texts by a Germanist working on Gothicand specializing in Anglo-German literary relations. Addressed to all who are interested in De Quincey's work and its place in literary history, and to the many readers in the English and German-speaking worlds who share De Quincey's and the author's enthusiasm for Gothic, this book adds considerably to the scope of De Quincey studies, which it enables to move on from some of the main unanswered questions of the past."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 80

Uniform Title

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 80.

Subject

• De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859 > Criticism and interpretation
• Gothic literature > 19th century
• Gothic literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-178) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Early Gothicreading -- Infant literature -- Thomas de Quincey and Charles de Moor -- Teenage Gothicreading -- 2. Teutophilia -- Oxford, van Haren and Schwartzburg -- J. H. Bohte -- 3. Translations from the German -- Gillies's German stories -- De Quincey's translations -- sport of fortune (1821) -- fatal Marksman (1823) -- Mr. Schnackenberger, The dice, The King of Hayti (1823) ; The incognito, The defier of ghosts (1824) -- love-charm (1825) -- 4. De Quincey and gothic -- Gothic -- De Quincey's gothic -- De Quincey and The Devil's elixir -- 5. Dream-texts -- Confessions of an English opium-eater (1822) -- Suspira de Profundis (1845-) -- English mail-coach (1849) -- 6. Essays -- Historico-critical inquiry into the origin of the Rosicrucians (1824) and secret societies (1847) -- On murder considered as one of the fine arts (1827) -- 7. Rifacimenti -- De Quincey, Gillies and rifacimento -- somnambulist (1824) -- Niels Klim's journey to the world under-ground (1822-28) -- Walladmor (1825) -- German Walladmor -- De Quincey's view of the German Walladmor -- German Walladmor as Gothicnovel -- De Quincey's Walladmor (1825) -- Walladmor as Gothicnovel -- Schloss Avalon (1827) -- Spanish military nun (1847-54) -- 8. Fictions -- stranger's grave (1823) -- peasant of Portugal (1827) and The Cacadore (1828) -- Klosterheim (1832) -- household wreck (1838) -- avenger (1838) -- 9. De Quincey and Kafka.

ISBN

9042018135 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library