The English Opium-Eater
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The English Opium-Eater

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The English Opium-Eater

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A masterful biography of England's most notorious literary figure. Author of the scandalous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) has long lacked a full-fledged biography. His friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods— including William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge—have long placed him at the center of nineteenth century literary studies. His writing was a tremendous influence on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, and William Burroughs.De Quincey is a topical figure for other reasons, too: a self-mythologizing autobiographer whose attitudes to drug-induced creativity and addiction strike highly resonant chords for a contemporary readership. Robert Morrison's biography passionately argues for the critical importance and enduring value of this neglected icon of English literature.

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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2012
ISBN
9781681770338
Topic
Littérature
Subtopic
Biographies littéraires

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. A Note on the Text
  9. Prologue: The Sphinx’s Riddle
  10. PART ONE: Dreams, 1785–1804
  11. PART TWO: The Magic Fix, 1804–19
  12. PART THREE: The Magic Prefix, 1819–41
  13. PART FOUR: Suspiria, 1841–59
  14. Epilogue: The Aggregate of Human Life
  15. Appendix: The Value of Money, 1780–1860
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. Copyright Page