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Book SynopsisThis volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). The edition presents De Quincey's work in all of its rich variety, and offers the most thorough and accurate annotation of De Quincey's major works ever compiled.
Trade ReviewOne of the themes that emerges in Robert Morrison's impressive edition of De Quincey's selected works, in Oxford University Press's '21st Century Oxford Authors' series, is the extent to which the author was awed by the sheer quantity of print, the mass of books and magazines, circulating among readers in Britain and abroad, on a scale never before known...Although these are not the themes that Robert Morrison chooses to highlight in this elegant and beautifully produced volume, they are nonetheless evident throughout the selection of works that he presents. With his surefooted editorial stance, Morrison leads us through a rich selection of De Quincey's greatest hits. * Josephine McDonagh, Romanticism *
Robert Morrison's new edition is a good place to start exploring De Quincey. * Jane Darcy, King's College London, Time Literary Supplement *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Note on the Text Chronology Part I 1: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 2: Manuscript and Other Material related to Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 3: From Letters to a Young Man Whose Education has been Neglected [The Literature of Knowledge and The Literature of Power] 4: On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth 5: On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts 6: From Elements of Rhetoric 7: From Samuel Taylor Coleridge 8: From Lake Reminiscences, from 1807 to 1830 9: Second Paper On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts 10: From Style 11: Suspiria de Profundis Part II 12: Manuscript Material related to Suspiria de Profundis 13: From The Works of Alexander Pope 14: The English Mail-Coach 15: Manuscript Material related to The English Mail-Coach 16: From the Preface to Selections Grave and Gay 17: Explanatory Notices of The English Mail-Coach 18: Postscript to On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts 19: Letter to Emily De Quincey 20: From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1856 Notes Index
