Thomas De Quincey

Robert Morrison, Daniel Sanjiv Roberts

"Morrison and Roberts's writing is lively, lucid, learned, and free of jargon. The 11 chapters offer fresh perspectives on De Quincey's often deplorable influence on Western view of the Orient...Although the authors consistently deplore de Quincey's 'Tory prejudices,' they are acutely aware that they are dealing with a long-neglected genius whose contributions to English literature have yet to be fully appreciated." --N. Fruman, Choice, May 2008"The essays in this excellent volume show that we have only begun to assess the subtle intra- and intertextual valence of De Quincey’s texts." -Joel Faflak, Byron Journal"The overarching theme of these diverse essays is ambiguity. De Quincey is once more shown to be more complex than critics for a long time allowed him to be. It is a volume which should be on the shelf of every De Quincey scholar." -Markus Iseli, Romanticism"What makes these essays so interesting is the unexpectedly complex nature of the tribute they pay[….] One unexpected result of this splendid collection of essays is that it sends its reader back not just to the twenty-one volumes of Lindop's splendid edition, but to all those periodicals, some of them still hard to access, from which Lindop gathered his material." -Richard Cronin, University of Glasgow,BARS Bulletin and Review

• 1 ‘I was Worshipped; I was Sacrificed’: A Passage to Thomas De QuinceyRobert Morrison and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts2 ‘Mix(ing) a little with Alien Natures’: Biblical Orientalism in De QuinceyDaniel Sanjiv Roberts3 Brunonianism, Radicalism, and ‘The Pleasures of Opium’Barry Milligan4 ‘Earthquake and Eclipse’: Radical Energies and De Quincey’s 1821 ConfessionsRobert Morrison5 De Quincey and Men (of Letters)John Whale6 Wooing the Reader: De Quincey, Wordsworth and Women in Tait’s Edinburgh MagazineJulian North7 De Quincey and the Secret Life of BooksJosephine McDonagh8 National Bad Habits: Thomas De Quincey’s Geography of AddictionJoel Black9 On the Language of the Sublime and the Sublime Nation in De Quincey: Toward a Reading of ‘The English Mail-Coach’Ian Balfour10 Chambers of Horror: De Quincey’s ‘Postscript’ to ‘On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts’Gregory Dart11 ‘A Deafening Menace in Tempestuous Uproars’: De Quincey’s 1856 Confessions, the Indian Mutiny, and the Response of Collins and DickensCharles Rzepka