Thomas De Quincey

New Theoretical and Critical Directions

Robert Morrison, Daniel S. Roberts

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781134148431
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Gothic, Romance, & Horror Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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 of De Quincey. In this spirit, ten of the top De Quincey scholars in the world have come together in this volume to engage 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.

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Thomas De Quincey

New Theoretical and Critical Directions

Edited by Robert Morrison and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts

Thomas De Quincey

New Theoretical and Critical Directions

Robert Morrison

Daniel Sanjiv Roberts

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Thomas de Quincey : new theoretical and critical directions / edited by Robert

Morrison and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts.

p. cm. -- (Routledge studies in romanticism)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-415-39963-0 (hardback : alk. paper)

1. De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859--Criticism and interpretation. I. Morrison, Robert, 1961- II. Roberts, Daniel Sanjiv.

PR4537.T5 1995

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2007011497

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ISBN10: 0-415-87668-0 (pbk)

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Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• 1 ‘I Was Worshipped; I Was Sacrificed’: A Passage to Thomas De Quincey ROBERT MORRISON AND DANIEL SANJIV ROBERTS
• 2 ‘Mix(ing) a Little with Alien Natures’: Biblical Orientalism in De Quincey DANIEL SANJIV ROBERTS
• 3 Brunonianism, Radicalism, and ‘The Pleasures of Opium’ BARRY MILLIGAN
• 4 ‘Earthquake and Eclipse’: Radical Energies and De Quincey’s 1821 Confessions ROBERT MORRISON
• 5 De Quincey and Men (of Letters) JOHN WHALE
• 6 Wooing the Reader: De Quincey, Wordsworth and Women in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine JULIAN NORTH
• 7 De Quincey and the Secret Life of Books JOSEPHINE MCDONAGH
• 8 National Bad Habits: Thomas De Quincey’s Geography of Addiction JOEL BLACK
• 9 On the Language of the Sublime and the Sublime Nation in De Quincey: Toward a Reading of ‘The English Mail-Coach’ IAN BALFOUR
• 10 Chambers of Horror: De Quincey’s ‘Postscript’ to ‘On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts’ GREGORY DART
• 11 ‘A Deafening Menace in Tempestuous Uproars’: De Quincey’s 1856 Confessions, the Indian Mutiny, and the Response of Collins and Dickens CHARLES RZEPKA
• Contributors
• Index

List of Illustrations

• Frontispiece Thomas De Quincey by Sir John Watson-Gordan
• Figure 2.1 The Protestant’s Family Bible
• Figure 2.2 ‘A Scene of Sati’
• Figure 2.3 ‘Jugg...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Frontmatter 1
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• 1 ‘I Was Worshipped; I Was Sacrificed’: A Passage to Thomas De Quincey—ROBERT MORRISON AND DANIEL SANJIV ROBERTS
• 2 ‘Mix(ing) a Little with Alien Natures’: Biblical Orientalism in De Quincey—DANIEL SANJIV ROBERTS
• 3 Brunonianism, Radicalism, and ‘The Pleasures of Opium’—BARRY MILLIGAN
• 4 ‘Earthquake and Eclipse’: Radical Energies and De Quincey’s 1821 Confessions—ROBERT MORRISON
• 5 De Quincey and Men (of Letters)—JOHN WHALE
• 6 Wooing the Reader: De Quincey, Wordsworth and Women in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine—JULIAN NORTH
• 7 De Quincey and the Secret Life of Books—JOSEPHINE MCDONAGH
• 8 National Bad Habits: Thomas De Quincey’s Geography of Addiction—JOEL BLACK
• 9 On the Language of the Sublime and the Sublime Nation in De Quincey: Toward a Reading of ‘The English Mail-Coach’—IAN BALFOUR
• 10 Chambers of Horror: De Quincey’s ‘Postscript’ to ‘On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts’—GREGORY DART
• 11 ‘A Deafening Menace in Tempestuous Uproars’: De Quincey’s 1856 Confessions, the Indian Mutiny, and the Response of Collins and Dickens—CHARLES RZEPKA
• Contributors
• Index