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Thomas de Quincey, best known for "Confessions of an Opium Eater", was a journalist and propagandist of Empire, of oriental aggression and of racial paranoia. This account of De Quincey's fears of all things oriental is also an analysis of the psychopathology of mid-Victorian imperialist culture.

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Hydrocephalus - the death of Elizabeth; nympholepsy - phantoms of delight; tigridiasis - Tipu's revenge; hydrophobia - out in the midday sun; the king's evil - the house of De Quincey; diplopia - two girls for every boy; the plague of Cairo and the death of a theory; homocidal mania - tales of massacre and vengeance; yellow fever - the opium wars; leontiasis - the Kandyan wars and the leprosy of cowardice; phallalgia - India in 1857.

The Infection of Thomas De Quincey

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      Publisher Yale University Press
      Published 6/26/1991 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780300049329
      978-0300049329
      ISBN-10 0300049323
      Also in:
      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Colonialism and imperialism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Thomas de Quincey, best known for "Confessions of an Opium Eater", was a journalist and propagandist of Empire, of oriental aggression and of racial paranoia. This account of De Quincey's fears of all things oriental is also an analysis of the psychopathology of mid-Victorian imperialist culture.

      Table of Contents
      Hydrocephalus - the death of Elizabeth; nympholepsy - phantoms of delight; tigridiasis - Tipu's revenge; hydrophobia - out in the midday sun; the king's evil - the house of De Quincey; diplopia - two girls for every boy; the plague of Cairo and the death of a theory; homocidal mania - tales of massacre and vengeance; yellow fever - the opium wars; leontiasis - the Kandyan wars and the leprosy of cowardice; phallalgia - India in 1857.

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