De Quincey, Struggling with Time(s)
A transitional writer between the Romantics and the Victorians, De Quincey left behind the portrait of a nostalgic man, resistant to change. Yet both individual and historical Times resist human interpretation: only the divine perspective can organize the apparent chaos and give it meaning, especial...
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| में प्रकाशित: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cve, |
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| स्वरूप: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| भाषा: | Anglais |
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
2026
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| ऑनलाइन पहुंच: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| सारांश: | A transitional writer between the Romantics and the Victorians, De Quincey left behind the portrait of a nostalgic man, resistant to change. Yet both individual and historical Times resist human interpretation: only the divine perspective can organize the apparent chaos and give it meaning, especially the titanic upheavals of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The ‘law of antagonism’ gives us some of the keys to this contradictory world. |
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