Thomas De Quincey - Selected Writings

This 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.

Table des matières

• Acknowledgements


• 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

A propos de l'auteur

Robert Morrison is Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He is the author of The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey, which was a finalist for the James Tait Black Prize. His annotated edition of Jane Austen's Persuasion was published by Harvard University Press. For Oxford World's Classics, he edited De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, as well as his three essays On Murder. With Chris Baldick, he co-edited The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre and Tales of Terror from Blackwood`s Magazine in the same series.

Résumé

This 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.

Texte suppl.

Robert Morrison's new edition is a good place to start exploring De Quincey.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Robert (British Academy Global Professor Morrison, Robert (Queen''''s National Scholar Morrison
• Collaboration: Robert Morrison (Editeur), Robert (British Academy Global Professor Morrison (Editeur), Morrison Robert (Editeur)
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780199676897
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967689-7
• Pages: 658
• Thèmes: 21st Century Oxford Authors; 21st Century Oxford Authors; 21st-Century Oxford Authors
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; Prose: non-fiction, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Biography and non-fiction prose, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form