{"product_id":"9781442638129","title":"Thomas De Quincey: The Prose of Vision","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThomas De Quincey: The Prose of Vision\u003c\/em\u003e is the first full-length critical study of De Quincey's imaginative writings. Considering these writings as a 'prose of vision' transcending their origins in magazine journalism, the author stresses their relationship to the Romantic traditions of imaginative vision and inward quest. He traces continuing themes and their transformations throughout De Quincey's career, and he offers sustained critical readings of De Quincey's major works.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProfessor De Luca discusses, in chronological sequence, the original version of \u003cem\u003eConfessions of an English Opium-Eater\u003c\/em\u003e, in which De Quincey  traces his passage from innocence to experience; Gothic tales and essays on murder, which reveal a fascination with the concept of power; and the major works of De Quincey's later years, including \u003cem\u003eSuspiria de Profundis\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe English Mail-Coach\u003c\/em\u003e, and the revised \u003cem\u003eConfessions\u003c\/em\u003e, which show the richest development of his interest in vision and in self-exploration. The book concludes with a discussion of the equivocal implications in De Quincey's three late major works and relates these implications to the equivocal tendencies in the Romantic tradition itself – its uneasy yearning for transcendence and its courageous commitment to the flow of ordinary experience. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis study, which makes a significant contribution to an understanding of De Quincey's works, will be of particular interest to students of Romanticism. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128165089520,"sku":"9781442638129","price":14.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442638129_p0.jpg?v=1763810505","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442638129","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}