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Terræ Incognitæ as Ego Incognita: Mapping Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

dc.contributor.advisorMuri, Allisonen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberVargo, Lisaen_US
dc.creatorSalt, Joel Een_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-20T08:31:00Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-04T04:59:27Z
dc.date.available2011-10-06T08:00:00Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-01-04T04:59:27Z
dc.date.created2010-09en_US
dc.date.issued2010-09en_US
dc.date.submittedSeptember 2010en_US
dc.description.abstractMapping literature has become a common metaphor in recent years, often to represent an organisational principle or to suggest the importance of geography in the critical work.  This paper examines the place of geography in literature and demonstrates that maps can add to our knowledge of literature. I use Richard Horwood’s 1792–9 Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster to visualise the movements of Thomas De Quincey in his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by plotting his movements within London and contrasting them to his earlier travels in Wales. I demonstrate that De Quincey’s writing process creates an imaginative London, London imaginis, that has the real London, London res, as a source. The London imaginis is shaped by De Quincey’s language and becomes an infernal prison where his “Dark Interpreter” associates with a community of pariahs, as Joetta Harty refers to it.  This is in stark contrast to the paradisal, verdurous, Wales chapters where De Quincey is sociable and free.  This spatial reading examines the difference between De Quincey’s identity in Wales and in London by exploring the language he uses and the spatial constructions in both London and Wales that become apparent when plotted on a map. This mapping demonstrates how De Quincey artificially constructs both his London imaginis and his London identity, his ego imaginis, to purposefully align himself among the lower classes.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-09202010-083100en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjecturbanen_US
dc.subjectcityen_US
dc.subjectLondonen_US
dc.subject19th centuryen_US
dc.subjectRomanticsen_US
dc.subjectdigital toolsen_US
dc.titleTerræ Incognitæ as Ego Incognita: Mapping Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eateren_US
dc.type.genreProjecten_US
dc.type.materialtexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentEnglishen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglishen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Saskatchewanen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US

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