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Written halfway between Confessions of an English opium-eater (1822) and the great, but fragmentary, Suspiria de profundis of the 1840s, Klosterheim is ostensibly a gothic fantasy in the manner of Ann Radcliffe, set in Germany during the Thirty Years' War. But De Quincey's gothic has a particular function, unlocking a door into the opium-taker's world of illusion and dream. He is writing at a period of desperate need and continuing addiction, and writing very well. Coleridge claimed to have read nothing since Quentin Durward that 'would compare in interest with Klosterheim', adding that De Quincey achieves a 'purity of style and idiom' to which Scott does not aspire.
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- PublisherUNKNO
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 1854771183
- ISBN 13 9781854771186
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages322
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Klosterheim: Or, the Masque 1832
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Woodstock Books, Herndon, Virginia, U.S.A.
(1992)
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ISBN 13: 9781854771186
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