The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Part I Vol 3

by Grevel Lindop, Barry Symonds

Overview

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the first part of a 21-volume set presenting De Quincey's work, also including previously unpublished material.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138764842
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/01/1999
Pages:	474
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface — Abbreviations — Conventions for manuscript transcription — Translation from B1ackwood’s Magazine 1821: The Spor of Fortune — — Articles and translations from the London Magazine 1821—4: Jean Paul Frederick Richter — The Happy Life of the Parish Priest in Sweden Last Will and Testament — The House of Weeping — Letters to a Young Man Whose Education has been Neglected — Literature and Authorship — Outline of the Work — On Languages — Letter to the Editor (Lion’s Head) — On Languages (continued) — On the English Notices of Kant — [Anecdotage (Lion’s Head)] — Anecdotage, 1. Miss Hawkins’s Anecdotes — Death of a German Man — Notes from the Pocket Book of a Late Opium-Eater — Anglo-German Dictionaries — Prefiguration of Remote Events — Moral Effects of Revolutions — Notes from the Pocket Book of a Late Opium-Eater — I. Walking Stewart — II. Maithus / On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth — III. English Dictionaries I Reforinadoes / Proverbs I Antagonism I To the Lakers / On Suicide — Lion’s Head (Dec.): XYZ reply to Hazlitt’s charge of plagiarism in Malthus — Notes from the Pocket Book of a Late Opium-Eater — IV. False Distinctions / Madness / English Physiology — V. Superficial Knowledge / Manuscripts of Melmoth / Scriptural Allusion Explained — Falsification of the History of England — Mr Schnackenberger; or Two Masters for One Dog — The Dice — The King of Hayti — Measure of Value — Miscellaneous translations 1823—4: The Fatal Marksman — The Incognito; or, Count Fitz-Hum — The Somnambulist — Manuscript transcripts: — On the London Magazine, XYZ. [MS Pierpont Morgan] — Continuation of the Note On the London M’igazine, XYZ. [MS Pforzheimer Collection, NYPLI — Silver plate inscription for Rev. Joshua William Brook — Anna Louise — Vulgar Errors in Political Economy — What is Theory? — Jeremy Taylor — Letters to a young man whose education has been neglected. — Letter V — The Defier of Ghosts — Appendix: — The Devil’s Ladder From the German of Aloise Schreiber — Explanatory Notes — Textual Notes.