Notes and Misconceptions
De Quincey helped turn private sensation, dreams, addiction, and urban drift into literary material.
The self-dramatizing theatricality is central to the effect, not a side issue.
Best Path
Romantic prose, addiction literature, dream writing
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Unreliable Selves
Narrators and protagonists who turn memory, faith, desire, illness, and charm into evasive machinery.
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britishromanticismmemoiraddictiondreamsurbanpsychologicalmedium