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De Quincey as Gothic Hero • 333 polite, apologetic, and hypochondriac believer in God.2 It is little wonder that De Quincey 's readers have been unable to decide such important matters as whether he regrets his opium-taking and ad-diction, since half of him does, and half does not. De Quincey begins the Confessions by claiming an affinity of
Abstract. De Quincey's writings contain 'reveries' that extend a Wordsworthian response to landscape and combine a sense of the infinite with a recognition of earthly labours. In the context of his troubled orientalism - in his articles 'Ceylon', 'The Kalmuck Tartars', and 'Russia in 1812', for example - his representation of landscape reveals ...
Thomas De Quincey 1785-1859 The possessor of 'a prodigious memory' and an 'inexhaustible fertility of topics' in his own estimation, De Quincey was able to make a substantial living from his writings. He was born in Manchester, educated at Bath, Winkfield, and Manchester Grammar School, from
The present editor, therefore, hastens to acknowledge his indebtedness to the various school editions of the Revolt of the Tartars, already in existence. The notes by Masson are so authoritative and so essential that their quotation needs no comment. De Quincey's footnotes are retained in their original form and appear embodied in the text.
De Quincey is known to have found Brunonian logic in his own text that linked habitual intoxication with intellectual explorations. The Medical Intelligencer’s review of De Quincey’s Confessions saw explicitly Brunonian aspects of De Quincey’s subject, and De Quincey cited that review
Sep 20, 2012 · Miller sees the whole of De Quincey’s work as an autobiographical expression of lost connection with God, and an attempt to overcome that loss. Miller’s essay radiates from his reading of De Quincey’s narrative, in Suspiria de Profundis, of the death of his sister Elizabeth. Miller was not the first critic to find this the primal scene of ...
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1821 (The London Magazine) Publication place. England. Media type. Print. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one that won him fame almost overnight".
