Table of Contents
1 ‘I was Worshipped; I was Sacrificed’: A Passage to Thomas De Quincey
Robert Morrison and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts
2 ‘Mix(ing) a little with Alien Natures’: Biblical Orientalism in De Quincey
Daniel Sanjiv Roberts
3 Brunonianism, Radicalism, and ‘The Pleasures of Opium’
Barry Milligan
4 ‘Earthquake and Eclipse’: Radical Energies and De Quincey’s 1821 Confessions
Robert Morrison
5 De Quincey and Men (of Letters)
John Whale
6 Wooing the Reader: De Quincey, Wordsworth and Women in Tait’s Edinburgh
Magazine
Julian North
7 De Quincey and the Secret Life of Books
Josephine McDonagh
8 National Bad Habits: Thomas De Quincey’s Geography of Addiction
Joel Black
9 On the Language of the Sublime and the Sublime Nation in De Quincey: Toward a
Reading of ‘The English Mail-Coach’
Ian Balfour
10 Chambers of Horror: De Quincey’s ‘Postscript’ to ‘On Murder Considered as
One of the Fine Arts’
Gregory Dart
11 ‘A Deafening Menace in Tempestuous Uproars’: De Quincey’s 1856 Confessions,
the Indian Mutiny, and the Response of Collins and Dickens
Charles Rzepka