Speed, network, vision speed, network, vision: Thomas de Quincey's post- English malle ; Vitesse, réseau, vision Vitesse, réseau, vision: La malle poste-anglaise de Thomas de Quincey
article available online at: http://cm.revues.org/2084 usually linked to opium, Thomas de Quincey's visionary romantic aesthetic is just as close to technological change with emerging industrial modernity. The English Mail-Coach is a key text in taking the memorial and cognitive effects of these mutations. Male-post, both as a means of transport (coach) and communication (email), enables De Quincey to take into account two new dimensions of experience: the inexorable speed and the creation of a centralised communication network. Both, through their own power and fatality, are fully involved in reformulating a sublimous and visionary aesthetic based on compressed perceptions of space and time. ; International audience ; article available online at: http://cm.revues.org/2084 usually linked to opium, Thomas de Quincey's visionary romantic aesthetic is just as close to technological change with emerging industrial modernity. The English Mail-Coach is a key text in taking the memorial and cognitive effects of these mutations. Male-post, both as a means of transport (coach) and communication (email), enables De Quincey to take into account two new dimensions of experience: the inexorable speed and the creation of a centralised communication network. Both, through their own power and fatality, are fully involved in reformulating a sublimous and visionary aesthetic based on compressed perceptions of space and time. ; Article disponible en ligne à l'adresse : http://cm.revues.org/2084 Habituellement liée à l'opium, l'esthétique romantique visionnaire de Thomas de Quincey est tout autant à rapprocher des mutations technologiques de la modernité industrielle naissante. The English Mail-Coach constitue un texte essentiel dans la prise des effets mémoriels et cognitifs de ces mutations. La malle-poste, à la fois comme moyen de transport (coach) et de communication (mail), permet à De Quincey de prendre en compte deux dimensions nouvelles de l'expérience : la vitesse inexorable et la constitution d'un réseau de communication ...