What is it about?
This paper aims to explore the idea that the formulation of the modern discipline of economics involved a discourse on the romantic sublime. By using the example of Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821-2), it addresses the issue of money and knowledge as two formative experiences in De Quincey’s life.
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Why is it important?
The notion of the sublime is usually read as being part of the romantic idealist poetics. However, this paper argues that capital and more specifically money have a sublime potential which is reflected in the cultural productions of the age (De Quincey's Confessions being one typical example)
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The paper was delivered in 2015 at a 'SCALE' conference (University of Malta) and then published in the CounterText, January 2016 issue. The writing of it was fostered by the author's involvement in a larger project 'A Cultural History of Capitalism: Britain, America, Croatia' (2014-2018) led by Professor Tatjana Jukic from the English Department of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Zagreb).
Mrs Martina Domines Veliki
University of Zagreb
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This page is a summary of: The Capital and the Romantic Sublime: The Case of Thomas De Quincey, CounterText, April 2016, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/count.2016.0039.
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