The English Mail-Coach
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The English Mail-Coach is a celebrated 1849 essay by Thomas De Quincey that blends autobiographical reflection, cultural commentary, and visionary prose around the experience and symbolism of Britain’s mail-coach system.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The English Mail-Coach canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
essay
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literary work ⓘ |
| author | Thomas De Quincey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOccupation |
critic
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essayist ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Blackwood's Magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiographical essay
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cultural commentary ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ visionary prose ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
later Victorian prose
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modernist narrative experimentation ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Dream-Fugue
NERFINISHED
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The Glory of Motion NERFINISHED ⓘ The Vision of Sudden Death NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose poem ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | English Romantic prose ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Romanticism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
highly descriptive
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ornate ⓘ rhetorical ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
British mail-coach system
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imagination ⓘ memory ⓘ national identity ⓘ transportation in 19th-century Britain ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blend of autobiography and cultural criticism
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experimental narrative structure ⓘ symbolic treatment of technology and empire ⓘ vivid visionary sequences ⓘ |
| partOf | Thomas De Quincey's collected essays ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1849 ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | 19th-century Britain ⓘ |
| structure | three-part essay ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
imperial communication network
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national power ⓘ speed and modernity ⓘ |
| theme |
danger and mortality
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dream and hallucination ⓘ memory and trauma ⓘ relationship between technology and perception ⓘ sublime experience ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed | pre-railway era ⓘ |
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