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9780199600618

Confessions of an English Opium-eater and Other Writings

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    9780199600618

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    0199600619

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2013-03-01
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

'I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!' Thomas De Quincey'sConfessions of an English Opium-Eater(1821) launched a fascination with drug use and abuse that has continued from his day to ours. In theConfessionsDe Quincey invents recreational drug taking, but he also details both the lurid nightmares that beset him in the depths of his addiction as well as his humiliatingly futile attempts to renounce the drug.Suspiria de Profundiscentres on the deep afflictions of De Quincey's childhood, and examines the powerful and often paradoxical relationship between drugs and human creativity. In 'The English Mail-Coach', the tragedies of De Quincey's past are played out with horrifying repetitiveness against a backdrop of Britain as a Protestant and an imperial power. This edition presents De Quincey's finest essays in impassioned autobiography, together with three appendices that are highlighted by a wealth of manuscript material related to the three main texts.

Author Biography


Robert Morrison is the author of a critically acclaimed biography of De Quincey, The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009). He has edited volumes of De Quincey's complete Works for Pickering and Chatto, and he is the editor of On Murder, a collection of De Quincey's essays 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' and other writings for OWC. He has also co-edited with Chris Baldick Polidori's The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre for OWC.

Table of Contents


Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Thomas De Quincey
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Suspiria de Profundis
The English Mail-Coach
Appendix A. Manuscript and Other Material relating to Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Appendix B. Manuscript Material relating to Suspiria de Profundis
Appendix C: Manuscript and Other Material relating to 'The English Mail-Coach'
Explanatory Notes

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