Sacramental Commodities: Gift, Text, and the Sublime in De Quincey

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University of Massachusetts Press, 1995 - 340 Seiten
This study argues that in the 18th and early 19th centuries writers fought against a perceived loss of authority by developing a theory of the rhetorical sublime. Against this background, the book examines the life and work of writer and opium addict Thomas De Quincey.

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Some Versions of the Sublime and
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The Christology of the Confessions
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Urheberrecht

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