Thomas De Quincey, Dark Interpreter

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Thomas De Quincey, Dark Interpreter is written by Brecht de Groote and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1474483925 (ISBN 10) and 9781474483926 (ISBN 13).

This book investigates how De Quincey's writing was shaped by his work as a translator. Drawing on a wide range of materials and readings, it traces how De Quincey employed structures of interlinguistic and interdiscursive exchange to reimagine Romanticism. The book examines how his theories and practices of translation served to position his oeuvre, define his style, frame his philosophy and reinvent the meaning of literary creativity. Brecht de Groote traces in particular the ways in which De Quincey used translation to locate British Romanticism in its European context. In shedding new light on De Quincey, de Groote models a new translation-centric approach to the study of Romanticism.