Selected Studies in Romantic and American Literature, History, and Culture: Inventions and Interventions

Rzepka (English, Boston U., Massachusetts) has collected 15 essays he wrote over the course of two decades on women and men, Thomas de Quincey's violent stages, gifts and powers, sites and regions, and all in your head. They include Christabel's "Wandering Mother" and the Discourse of the Self: A Lacanian Reading of Repressed Narration, Thomas De Quincey's "Three-Fingered Jack:" The West Indian Origins of the "Dark Interpreter," and Detection as Method: Reconstructing the Past in Godwin and Freud. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)