ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 9|22 pages
On the Language of the Sublime and the Sublime Nation in De Quincey
Toward a Reading of ‘The English Mail-Coach'
chapter 10|24 pages
Chambers of Horror
De Quincey's ‘Postscript’ to ‘On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts’
chapter 11|23 pages
‘A Deafening Menacein Tempestuous Uproars'
De Quincey's 1856 Confessions, The Indian Mutiny, and the Response of Collins and Dickens