Thomas De Quincey: New Theoretical and Critical Directions

by Morrison; Robert

• ISBN13: 9780415399630
• ISBN10: 0415399637
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The ongoing critical fascination with Thomas De Quincey, and the burgeoning recognition of the centrality of his writings to the Romantic age and beyond, necessitates a critical examination. The volume brings together ten of the top De Quincey scholars in the world, and engages directly with the immense amount of new information to be published on De Quincey in the past two decades. The book features wide-ranging and incisive assessments of De Quincey as essayist, addict, economist, subversive, biographer, autobiographer, aesthete, innovator, hedonist, and much else.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
'I Was Worshipped; I Was Sacrificed': A Passage to Thomas De Quincey	p. 1
'Mix(ing) a Little with Alien Natures': Biblical Orientalism in De Quincey	p. 19
Brunonianism, Radicalism, and 'The Pleasures of Opium'	p. 45
'Earthquake and Eclipse': Radical Energies and De Quincey's 1821 Confessions	p. 63
De Quincey and Men (of Letters)	p. 81
Wooing the Reader: De Quincey, Wordsworth and Women in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine	p. 99
De Quincey and the Secret Life of Books	p. 123
National Bad Habits: Thomas De Quincey's Geography of Addiction	p. 143
On the Language of the Sublime and the Sublime Nation in De Quincey: Toward a Reading of 'The English Mail-Coach'	p. 165
Chambers of Horror: De Quincey's 'Postscript' to 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts'	p. 187
'A Deafening Menace in Tempestuous Uproars': De Quincey's 1856 Confessions, the Indian Mutiny, and the Response of Collins and Dickens	p. 211
Contributors	p. 235
Index	p. 237
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