Thomas de Quincey
Subtitle: new theoretical and critical directions
By: [edited by] Robert Morrison, Daniel Sanjiv Roberts
Contributors: Morrison, Robert, 1961-; Roberts, Daniel Sanjiv
Series: Routledge studies in romanticism
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780415399630
Subjects: De Quincey, Thomas, -- 1785-1859 -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: 'I was worshipped; I was sacrificed' : a passage to Thomas de Quincey / Robert Morrison and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts; title: 'Mix(ing) a little with alien natures' : biblical orientalism in De Quincey / Daniel Sanjiv Roberts; title: Brunonianism, radicalism, and 'the pleasures of opium' / Barry Milligan; title: 'Earthquake and eclipse' : radical energies and De Quincey's 1821 Confessions / Robert Morrison; title: De Quincey and men (of letters) / John Whale; title: Wooing the reader : De Quincey, Wordsworth and women in Tait's Edinburgh magazine / Julian North; title: De Quincey and the secret life of books / Josephine McDonagh; title: National bad habits : Thomas de Quincey's geography of addiction / Joel Black; title: On the language of the sublime and the sublime nation in De Quincey : toward a reading of 'The English mail-coach' / Ian Balfour; title: Chambers of horror : De Quincey's 'postscript' to 'On murder considered as one of the fine arts' / Gregory Dart; title: 'A deafening menace in tempestuous uproars' : De Quincey's 1856 Confessions, the Indian mutiny, and the response of Collins and Dickens / Charles Rzepka