{"product_id":"the-infection-of-thomas-de-quincey-9780300049329","title":"The Infection of Thomas De Quincey","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHydrocephalus - 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.","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767244292439,"sku":"9780300049329","price":59.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300049329.jpg?v=1758712641","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-infection-of-thomas-de-quincey-9780300049329","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}