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Irony in Thomas De Quincey's works
2014
Studying the works of De Quincey necessarily leads to three concepts almost impossible to define: autobiography, Romanticism, and all-too neglected irony. Whether rhetorical, tragic or “romantic”, irony expresses perfectly the many contradictions of the opium-eater. As the rhetorical tool of conflict and self-derision, claiming both individualistic and community values, sociable and provoking, irony is the way to redemption as much as the expression of deep unease, a way of pushing himself forward, or of withdrawing into the background. Caught between Romanticism and Victorianism, De Quincey questions the limits of his own identity and his status as an intellectual, and exploits reluctantly…
Du refuge au ring : le statut de l’espace épistolaire chez quelques poètes romantiques anglais
2016
For the British Romantic poets, private letters often act as a creative laboratory, partly because a correspondence represents a form of shelter, as letters are addressed to friends and thus exclude literary critics, whose reviews were often extremely severe. However, since these poets also use their letters to talk about their compositions, they then tend to turn into the very literary critics they fear so much, and as a result their correspondence sometimes ends up looking more like an arena than like a shelter.