%0 Journal Article %T Romantic Confession: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas de Quincey %A Domines Veliki %A Martina %J - %D 2015 %X Sa£¿etak In the introductory part of the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821), De Quincey makes a distinction between French and English confessional writings by saying that ¡®nothing, indeed, is more revolting to English feelings than the spectacle of a human being obtruding on our notice his moral ulcers or scars, and tearing away that ¡°decent drapery¡± which time or indulgence to human frailty may have drawn over them¡¯. French sensibility, according to De Quincey is ¡®spurious and defective¡¯ while the English is always concerned with the constitution of the moral faculties. Departing from De Quincey¡¯s remark and his confessional autobiography, this paper aims to explore the origins of Romantic confessional writing and possible overlapping between Jean-Jacques Rousseau¡¯s and De Quincey¡¯s work. It will also try to locate ¡®confession¡¯ within Romantic autobiographical writings, stressing the importance of a truly autonomous subject, fully conscious of his uniqueness. Furthermore, the paper will try to deal with the poststructuralist vein of thinking, departing from Linda Anderson¡¯s contention that ¡®autobiography represents a privileged form for a Romantic writer because it confirms his plight: the perplexity of a self forever recasting and repeating itself as text. %K Thomas De Quincey %K drug autobiography %K Jean-Jacques Rousseau %K romantic confession %K romantic subjectivity %U https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=248223