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E-raamat: Thomas De Quincey: New Theoretical and Critical Directions [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

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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.



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.
List of Illustrations
vii
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
`I Was Worshipped; I Was Sacrificed': A Passage to Thomas De Quincey
1(18)
Robert Morrison
Daniel Sanjiv Roberts
`Mix(ing) a Little with Alien Natures': Biblical Orientalism in De Quincey
19(26)
Daniel Sanjiv Roberts
Brunonianism, Radicalism, and `The Pleasures of Opium'
45(18)
Barry Milligan
`Earthquake and Eclipse': Radical Energies and De Quincey's 1821 Confessions
63(18)
Robert Morrison
De Quincey and Men (of Letters)
81(18)
John Whale
Wooing the Reader: De Quincey, Wordsworth and Women in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
99(24)
Julian North
De Quincey and the Secret Life of Books
123(20)
Josephine Mcdonagh
National Bad Habits: Thomas De Quincey's Geography of Addiction
143(22)
Joel Black
On the Language of the Sublime and the Sublime Nation in De Quincey: Toward a Reading of `The English Mail-Coach'
165(22)
Ian Balfour
Chambers of Horror: De Quincey's `Postscript' to `On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts'
187(24)
Gregory Dart
`A Deafening Menace in Tempestuous Uproars': De Quincey's 1856 Confessions, the Indian Mutiny, and the Response of Collins and Dickens
211(24)
Charles Rzepka
Contributors 235(2)
Index 237


Robert Morrison, Daniel Sanjiv Roberts