In her 1926 essay on "Impassioned Prose," Virginia Woolf declared that Thomas De Quincey was "an exception and a solitary." Subsequent readers have often agreed that he defies categorization. From the beginning of his writing career, De Quincey enchanted...
In her 1926 essay on "Impassioned Prose," Virginia Woolf declared that Thomas De Quincey was "an exception and a solitary." Subsequent readers have often agreed that he defies categorization. From the beginning of his writing career, De Quincey enchanted...
Best known as the author of the Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1822), Thomas De Quincey was an innovative master of English prose style whose importance has been eclipsed by the modern tendency to consider poetry the major Romantic genre, as well...
LIFE ON THE HYPHEN: The Cuban-American Way. By Gustavo PErez Firmat. Texas. 213 pp. $30. Paper $12.95. Both Gustavo Perez Firmat in Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way and Coco Fusco in English Is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the...
By Roy Porter. New York: Penguin USA, $14.95. To imagine a past in any way different from the present seems more difficult than ever before. Colleagues everywhere at every level describe students who appear to think that civil rights was a problem way...
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