Thomas de Quincey

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Thomas de Quincey is written by Robert Morrison and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0415399637 (ISBN 10) and 9780415399630 (ISBN 13).

The ongoing critical fascination with Thomas De Quincey and the burgeoning recognition of the centrality of his writings to the Romantic age and beyond necessitates a critical examination of De Quincey. In this spirit, ten of the top De Quincey scholars in the world have come together in this volume to engage directly with the immense amount of new information to be published on De Quincey in the past two decades. The book features wide-ranging and incisive assessments of De Quincey as essayist, addict, economist, subversive, biographer, autobiographer, aesthete, innovator, hedonist, and much else.