Thomas De Quincey New Theoretical and Critical Directions [Paperback]

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.

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 Quinceys 1821 Confessions

Robert Morrison

5 De Quincey and Men (of Letters)

John Whale

6 Wooing the Reader: De Quincey, Wordsworth and Women in Taits Edinburgh

Magazine

Julian North

7 De Quincey and the Secret Life of Books

Josephine McDonagh

8 National Bad Habits: Thomas De Quinceys 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 Quinceys Postscript to On Murder Col6