Thomas de Quincey

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.

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