A Genealogy of the Modern Self: Thomas de Quincey and the Intoxication of Writing by Alina Clej

A Genealogy of the Modern Self: Thomas de Quincey and the Intoxication of Writing

Alina Clej

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As 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 mod...

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