Morrison, R (2009) The English opium eater: a biography of Thomas De Quincey. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. ISBN 9780753827895
Abstract
Thomas De Quincey’s friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods – including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle – have long placed him at the centre of 19th-century literary studies. De Quincey also stands at the meeting point in the culture wars between Edinburgh and London; between high art and popular taste; and between the devotees of the Romantic imagination and those of hack journalism. His writing was a tremendous influence on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, William Burroughs and Peter Ackroyd. De Quincey is a fascinating (and 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 essayist, critic and biographer.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Note: | Published in USA by Pegasus, 2010. |
| Divisions: | School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2019 10:46 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Aug 2021 09:53 |
| URN: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/12622 |
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