A Bibliography of Thomas De Quincey

Nineteenth-Century Scholarship

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Anonymous. “Review of The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey.The Athenaeum 23 Dec. 1893: 873-74.

---. “Causes Célèbres XXIII: No. 29 Ratcliffe Highway.” The Green Bag 3 (1891): 134-37.

---. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.” The Saturday Review 16 May 1885: 660-61.

---. “Masson’s De Quincey.” The Saturday Review 17 Dec. 1881: 763-64.

---. “Thomas De Quincey.” The London Quarterly and Holburn Review 49 (1877): 35-74.

---. “Review of Thomas De Quincey: His Life and Writing.The British Quarterly Review 66 (1877): 415-33.

---. “Thomas De Quincey.” The Saturday Review 2 June 1877: 675-76.

---. “De Quincey.” The New Quarterly Magazine July 1875: 257-87.

---. “Review of The Works of De Quincey.National Quarterly Review 22 (1870): 71-88.

---. “Thomas De Quincey.” Sharpe’s London Magazine 49 (1869): 300-14.

---. “Thomas De Quincey.” The Eclectic Review 15 (1868): 95-118.

---. “Review of The Works of De Quincey.The British Quarterly Review, 38 (1863): 1-29.

---. “Review of The Works of De Quincey.” in Littell’s Living Age, 66 (21 July 1860), 151-54

---. “Thomas De Quincey.” The Athenaeum 17 Dec. 1859: 814-15.

---. “Death of Thomas De Quincey.” The Scotsman 10 Dec. 1859: 6.

---. “Thomas De Quincey.” The Gentleman’s Magazine 96 (1857): 107-14.

---. “Thomas De Quincey.” The London Quarterly Review 8 (1857): 198-219.

---. “De Quincey’s Miscellanies.Colburn’s New Monthly Magazine 105 (1855): 87-90.

---. “Review of Selections Grave and Gay.The Eclectic Review, New Series 8 (1854): 385-99.

---. “Thomas De Quincey and his Works.” Hogg’s Instructor 3 (1854): 1-15.

---. “De Quincey’s Miscellanies.Colburn’s New Monthly Magazine 101 (1854): 338-43.

---. “Life and Adventures of an Opium-Eater.” The Dublin University Magazine43 (1854): 331-454.

---. “Life and Adventures of an Opium-Eater.” The Dublin University Magazine 43 (1854): 409-25.

---. “Thomas De Quincey and his Works.” The Westminster Review 61 (1854): 275-84.

---. “Thomas De Quincey.” The Eclectic Review 27 (1852): 565-69.

---. “Review of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.The United States Literary Gazette 1 (1825): 38-40.

---. “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.The North American Review 18 (1824): 90-8.

---. “Review of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.The Eclectic Review New Series, 19 (1823): 366-71.

---. “Review of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.The Monthly Review 100 (1823): 288-96.

---. “Review of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.The New Edinburgh Review 4 (1823): 253-74.

---. “Review of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.The Imperial Magazine 5 (1823): 89-95.

---. “Review of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.The British Review and London Critical Journal 20 (1822): 474-89.

---. “Review of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.The Gentleman’s Magazine 92, Part 2 (1822): 447.

---. “Review of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.The European Magazine and London Review 82 (1822): 459-60.

---. “Review of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.The British Critic New Series, 18 (1822): 531-34.

---. “Review of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.The Album 2 (1822): 177-207.

Bayne, Peter. “Thomas De Quincey and his Works.” Essays in Biography and Criticism. 2 vols. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1857. 1: 15-49.

Cottle, Joseph. Early Recollections; Chiefly Relating to the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 2 vols. London: Longman, 1837. 1: 124-131.

De Quincey, Thomas. The Posthumous Works. Ed. A. H. Japp. 2 vols. London: Heinemann, 1891-93.

---. De Quincey Memorials. Ed. A. H. Japp. 2 vols. London: Heinemann, 1891.

---. The Uncollected Writings. Ed. James Hogg. 2 vols. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1890.

---. The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey. Ed. David Masson. 14 vols. Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1889-90.

Espinasse, Francis. “Thomas De Quincey.” Lancashire Worthies. Second Series. London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1877. 378-461.

Findlay, John Ritchie. Personal Recollections of Thomas De Quincey. Edinburgh: Black, 1886.

Garnett, Richard. “Introduction.” Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Ed. Richard Garnett. London: Kegan Paul, 1885. vii-xxii.

---. “De Quincey and De Musset.” Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Ed. Richard Garnett. London: Kegan Paul, 1885. 169-88.

Gilfillan, George. “Thomas De Quincey.” A Gallery of Literary Portraits. Edinburgh: Tait, 1845. 154-163.

Gillies, Robert Pearse. “Mr De Quincey.” Memoirs of a Literary Veteran. 3 vols. London: Bentley, 1851. 2: 218-21.

Gillman, James. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. London: Pickering, 1838. 240-56.

Griswold, Hattie Tyng. “Thomas De Quincey.” Home Life of Great Authors. Chicago: McClurg, 1886. 54-63.

Hamley, E. B. “A Recent Confession of an Opium-Eater.” Blackwood’s Magazine 80 (1856): 629-36.

Hare, Julius Charles. “Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the English Opium-Eater.” The British Magazine 7 (1835): 15-27.

Ingram, J. H. “Thomas De Quincey: His Life and Writings, by A. J. Japp.” International Review 4 (1877): 647-62.

Japp, A. H. Thomas De Quincey: His Life and Writings. 2 vols. New York: Scribner, 1877.

---. Thomas De Quincey: His Life and Writings. Revised Edition. London: Hogg, 1890.

Kebbel, T. E. “Selections Grave and Gay, by Thomas De Quincey.” The Quarterly Review 110 (1861): 1-35.

Lathrop, George Parsons. “Some Aspects of De Quincey.” The Atlantic Monthly 40 (1877): 569-84.

Maginn, William. “The Humbugs of the Age. No. 1.” John Bull Magazine and Literary Recorder 1 (1824): 21-4.

Mackay, Charles. “Professor J. P. Nichol and Thomas De Quincey.” Forty Years' Recollection of Life, Literature, and Public Affairs from 1830 to 1870. London: Chapman and Hall, 1877. 1: 313-26.

Moir, David Macbeth. “De Quincey’s Revenge.” Blackwood’s Magazine 48 (1840): 578-86.

Nicoll, Henry J. Landmarks of English Literature. London: Hogg, 1883. 360-65.

Oliphant, Margaret. “The Opium Eater.” Blackwood’s Magazine 122 (1877): 717-41.

Proctor, Bryan Waller. An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes. London: Bell, 1877. 212-14.

Rae-Brown, Colin. “A Reminiscence of De Quincey.” Universal Review 5 (1889): 393-400.

Stirling, James Hutchinson. “De Quincey and Coleridge Upon Kant.” Fortnightly Review, New Series 10 (1868): 377-97.

Thompson, Francis. “A Monument of Personality.” The Academy 56 (1899): 478-79.

Vincens, Cécile. “Essaies de littérature pathologique. II. L’Opium -- Thomas De Quincey.” Revue des deux mondes 138 (1896): 116-46.

Watts, Theodore. “’The Fatal Marksman.’” The Athenaeum 2830 (21 January 1882): 92.

Woodhouse, Richard. “Notes of Conversation with Thomas De Quincey.” Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Ed. Richard Garnett. London: Kegan Paul, 1885. 191-233.

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Twentieth-Century Scholarship

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Abrams, M. H. The Milk of Paradise: The Effects of Opium Visions on the Works of De Quincey, Crabbe, Francis Thompson, and Coleridge. New York: Harper & Row, 1962.

Adams, Robert Martin. “Sénancour, Novalis, De Quincey: Equivocal Romantics.” Nil: Episodes in the Literary Conquest of the Void during the Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. 17-38.

Appleman, Philip. “D. H. Lawrence and the Intrusive Knock.” Modern Fiction Studies 3 (1958): 328-32.

Axon, William E. A. “De Quincey and Coleridge.” Notes and Queries s11-II (1910): 228.

Barrell, John. The Infection of Thomas De Quincey. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Bate, Jonathan. “The Literature of Power: Coleridge and De Quincey.” Coleridge’s Visionary Languages. Ed. Tim Fulford and Morton D. Paley. Bury St. Edmonds: Brewer, 1993. 137-50.

Baxter, Edmund. De Quincey’s Art of Autobiography. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990.

Beer, John. “The Englishness of De Quincey’s Ideas.” English and German Romanticism: Cross-Currents and Controversies. Ed. James Pipkin. Heidelberg: Winter, 1985. 323-47.

Black, Joel. The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

---. “Confession, Digression, Gravitation: Thomas De Quincey’s German Connection.” Thomas De Quincey: Bicentenary Studies. Ed. Robert Lance Synder. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. 308-37.

Booth, Martin. Opium: A History. London: Simon and Schuster, 1996.

Bruss, Elizabeth. “Thomas De Quincey: Sketches and Sighs.” Autobiographical Acts. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. 93-126.

Burwick, Frederick. “De Quincey on the Secession of the Church of Scotland.” The Wordsworth Circle 29 (1998): 109-14.

Cafarelli, Annette Wheeler. “Thomas De Quincey: The Allegory of Everyday Life.” Prose in the Age of Poets: Romanticism and Biographical Narrative from Johnson to De Quincey. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. 151-91.

Caseby, Richard. The Opium-Eating Editor: Thomas De Quincey and the Westmorland Gazette. Kendal: Westmorland Gazette, 1985.

Clarke, David F., “On the Incompleteness of the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.” The Wordsworth Circle 8.4 (1977): 368-76.

Clej, Alina. A Genealogy of the Modern Self: Thomas De Quincey and the Intoxication of Writing. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.

Cooke, Michael G. “De Quincey, Coleridge, and the Formal Uses of Intoxication.” Yale French Studies 50 (1974): 26-40.

De Luca, V. A. Thomas De Quincey: The Prose of Vision. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980.

Dendurent, H. O. Thomas De Quincey: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978.

De Quincey, Thomas. De Quincey and his Publishers. Ed. Barry Symonds. Diss. University of Edinburgh, 1994.

---. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings. Ed. Grevel Lindop. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

---. De Quincey as Critic. Ed. John E. Jordan (London: Routledge, 1973).

---. Selected Essays on Rhetoric by Thomas De Quincey. Ed. Frederick Burwick. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967).

---. De Quincey to Wordsworth Ed. John E. Jordan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963.

---. De Quincey at Work. Ed. W. H. Bonner. Buffalo: Airport Publishers, 1936.

Devlin, D. D. De Quincey, Wordsworth and the Art of Prose. London: Macmillan, 1983.

Eaton, H. A. Thomas De Quincey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1936.

Forward, Kenneth. “’Libellous Attack’ on De Quincey.” PMLA 52 (1937): 244-60.

Goldman, Albert. The Mine and the Mint: Sources for the Writings of Thomas De Quincey. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1965.

Groves, David. “De Quincey and the Early Issues of Blackwood’s Magazine. Notes and Queries 46 (1999): 473-74.

---. “Climbing the Post: Thomas De Quincey as a Newspaper Editor, 1827-28.” The Wordsworth Circle 29.2 (1998): 126-31.

---. “De Quincey, David Robinson, and The Edinburgh Post. Notes and Queries 37 (1990): 420.

---. “De Quincey: A ’Lost’ Passage from The Edinburgh Evening Post. Notes and Queries 37 (1990): 419-20.

---. “De Quincey, Friedrich Schlegel, and Victor Cousin.“ Notes and Queries 37 (1990): 27-28.

---. “De Quincey and Danish Poetry” Notes and Queries 35 (1988): 313-15.

---. “De Quincey’s ‘Daughter of Lebannon’ and the Execution of Mary McKinnon.” The Wordsworth Circle 19.2 (1988): 105-07.

Hayter, Alethea. Opium and the Romantic Imagination. London: Faber, 1969.

Henderson, Willie. “Thomas De Quincey reads David Ricardo.” Economics as Literature. London: Routledge, 1995. 91-111.Holstein, Michael E. “‘An Apocalypse of the World Within’: Autobiographical Exegesis in De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822).” Prose Studies 2 (1979): 88-102.

Hopkins, Robert. “De Quincey on War and the Pastoral Design of ‘The English Mail-Coach.’” Studies in Romanticism 3 (1967): 129-51.

Hubble, Douglas. “Opium, Addiction and English Literature.” Medical History 1 (1957): 323-35.

Jordan, John E. Thomas De Quincey: Literary Critic. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1952.

---. “Grazing the Brink: De Quincey’s Ironies.” Thomas De Quincey: Bicentenary Studies. Ed. Robert Lance Synder. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. 199-212.

---. “Thomas De Quincey.” The English Romantic Poets and Essayists. Ed. C. W. Houtchens and L. H. Houtchens. New York: New York University Press, 1966. 289-331.

Kidd, Cameron. “De Quincey’s Grammar.” Saturday Review 102 (1906): 237.

Leask, Nigel. “‘Murdering One’s Double’: Thomas De Quincey and S. T. Coleridge.” British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxiety of Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 170-228.

Leighton, Angela. “De Quincey and Women” in Beyond Romanticism: New Approaches to Texts and Contexts 1780-1832. Ed. Stephen Copley and John Whale. London: Routledge, 1992. 160-77.

Lent, John. “Thomas De Quincey, Subjectivity, and Modern Literature: A Consideration of the Release of Vision in Confessions of an English Opium Eater and ‘Suspiria de Profundis.’” Sphinx 9 (1979): 36-58.

Lever, Karen M. “De Quincey as Gothic Hero: A Perspective on Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and ‘Suspiria de Profundis.’” Texas Studies in Language and Literature 21 (1979): 332-46.

Lindop, Grevel. “Line-End Hyphenation as a Problem for Editors, with Case-Studies from De Quincey.” Yearbook of English Studies 29 (1999): 191-202.

---. “Gabriel and His Adversary: Problems and Principles in the Editing of De Quincey's Works.” The Wordsworth Circle 29 (1998): 106-09.

---. “De Quincey and the Edinburgh and Glasgow University Circles.” Grub Street and the Ivory Tower: Essays on Literary Journalism and Literary Scholarship. Ed. B. Bennett and J. Treglown. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 41-57.

---. “De Quincey and the Cursed Crocodile.” Essays in Criticism 45 (1995): 121-40.

---. “De Quincey’s Wordsworthian Quotations.” The Wordsworth Circle 26 (1995): 58-65.

---. “De Quincey’s ‘Immortal Druggist’ and Wordsworth’s ‘Power of Music.’” Notes and Queries 93 (1994): 341-3.

---. “De Quincey and the Portico Library.” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 76 (1994): 179-86.

---. “Pursuing the Throne of God: De Quincey and the Evangelical Revival.” Charles Lamb Bulletin 52 (1985): 97-111.

---. “Innocence and Revenge: The Problem of De Quincey’s Fiction.” Thomas De Quincey: Bicentenary Studies. Ed. Robert Lance Synder. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. 213-37.

---. The Opium-Eater: A Life of Thomas De Quincey. London: Dent, 1981.

Long, John. “Thomas De Quincey, Clinician.” The Wordsworth Circle 24 (1993): 170-77.

Lyon, Judson. Thomas De Quincey. New York: Twayne, 1969.

Malkan, Jeffrey. “Aggressive Text: Murder and the Fine Arts Revisited.” Mosaic 23 (1990): 101-14.

Maniquis, Robert. “Lonely Empires: Personal and Public Visions of Thomas De Quincey.” Literary Monographs. Ed. Eric Rothstein and Joseph Anthony Wittreich. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1976. 8: 47-127.

---. “V. A. De Luca, Thomas De Quincey: The Prose of Vision.” Studies in Romanticism 23 (1984): 139-47.

McCusker, Honor. “De Quincey and the Landlord.” More Books 14.2 (1939): 66.

McDonagh, Josephine. De Quincey’s Disciplines. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

McFarland, G. F. “Julius Charles Hare: Coleridge, De Quincey, and German Literature.” Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 47 (1964-65): 165-97.

McFarland, Thomas. “De Quincey’s Journey to the End of Night.“ Romantic Cruxes: The English Essayists and the Spirit of the Age. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. 90-122.

Metcalf, John Calvin. De Quincey: A Portrait. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1940.

Miller, J. Hillis. “Thomas De Quincey.” The Disappearance of God. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963. 17-80.

Milligan, Barry. Pleasures and Pains: Opium and the Orient in Nineteenth-Century British Culture. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995.

Morrison, Robert. “De Quincey and the Opium-Eater’s Other Selves.” Romanticism 5 (1999): 87-103.

---. “The ’Scotchman of eminent name’ in De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.” Notes and Queries 46 (1999): 45-7.

---. “’An Edinburgh surgeon of great eminence’ in De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.” Notes and Queries 46 (1999): 47-8.

---. “Julian North, De Quincey Reviewed: Thomas De Quincey’s Critical Reception, 1821-1994.” Romanticism on the Net, 13 (1999).

---. “Essayists of the Romantic Period: De Quincey, Hazlitt, Hunt, and Lamb.” Literature of the Romantic Period: A Bibliographical Guide. Ed. Michael O’Neill. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 341-363.

---. “Red De Quincey.” The Wordsworth Circle 28 (1998): 131-36.

---. “Margaret Russett, De Quincey’s Romanticism: Canonical Minority and the Forms of Transmission.” Romanticism on the Net, 10 (1998).

---. “Opium-Eaters and Magazine Wars: De Quincey and Coleridge in 1821.” Victorian Periodicals Review 30 (1997): 27-40.

---. “Alina Clej, A Genealogy of the Modern Self: Thomas De Quincey and the Intoxication of Writing; Charles Rzepka, Sacramental Commodities: Gift, Text, and the Sublime in De Quincey; Matthew Schneider, Original Ambivalence: Autobiography and Violence in Thomas De Quincey.” Keats-Shelley Journal, 46 (1997): 202-05.

---. “‘The Bog School’: Carlyle and De Quincey.” Carlyle Studies Annual 15 (1995): 13-20.

---. “’I here present you, courteous reader’: the Literary Presence of Thomas De Quincey.” The Charles Lamb Bulletin 90 (1995): 68-72.

---. “Josephine McDonaugh, De Quincey’s Disciplines.” The Charles Lamb Bulletin 91 (1995): 163-64.

---. “De Quincey, Champion of Shelley.” Keats-Shelley Journal 41 (1992): 36-41.

---. “John Barrell, The Infection of Thomas De Quincey.” The Charles Lamb Bulletin 78 (1992): 210-12.

---. “Edmund Baxter, De Quincey’s Art of Autobiography.” The Charles Lamb Bulletin 75 (1991): 103-04.

North, Julian. De Quincey Reviewed: Thomas De Quincey’s Critical Reception, 1821-1994. London: Camden House, 1997.

O’Quinn, Daniel. “Murder, Hospitality, Philosophy: De Quincey and the Complicitious Grounds of National Identity.” Studies in Romanticism 38 (1999): 135-70.

---. “The Gog and The Magog of Hunnish Desolation: De Quincey, Kant and the Practice of Death.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 20 (1997): 1-26.

Owen, W.J.B. “De Quincey and Shoplifting.” The Wordsworth Circle 21 (1990): 72-6.

Perry, Curtis. “Piranesi’s Prison: Thomas De Quincey and the Failure of Autobiography.” Studies in English Literature 33 (1993): 809-24.

Plotz, Judith. “In the Footsteps of Aladdin: De Quincey's Arabian Nights.” The Wordsworth Circle 29 (1998): 120-26.

---. “Imaginary Kingdoms with Real Boys in Them: or How the Quincey Brothers Built the British Empire.” The Wordsworth Circle 27 (1996): 131-36.

---. “On Guilt Considered as One of the Fine Arts: De Quincey’s Criminal Imagination.” The Wordsworth Circle 19 (1988): 83-8.

Plumtree, A. S. “The Artist as Murderer: De Quincey’s Essay ‘On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts.’” Thomas De Quincey: Bicentenary Studies. Ed. Robert Lance Synder. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. 140-63.

Porter, Roger. “The Demon Past: De Quincey and the Autobiographer’s Dilemma.” Studies in English Literature 20 (1980): 591-609.

Praz, Mario. “Thomas De Quincey.” The Hero in Eclipse in Victorian Fiction. London: Oxford University Press, 1956. 75-86.

Quennell, Peter. “Books in General.” New Statesman and Nation 60 (1950): 429-30.

Ramsey, Roger. “The Structure of De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.” Prose Studies 1 (1978): 21-9.

Reed, Arden. “‘Booked for Utter Perplexity’ on De Quincey’s ‘English Mail-Coach.’” Thomas De Quincey: Bicentenary Studies. Ed. Robert Lance Synder. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1985. 279-307.

Roberts, Daniel. “Coleridge’s Liverpool Connection.” Notes and Queries 46 (1999): 455-7.

---. “Thomas De Quincey’s ‘Danish Origin of the Lake Country Dialect.’” Transactions of the Westmorland and Cumberland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 99 (1999): 256-65.

---. “The Missing Letters of Thomas De Quincey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge.” English Language Notes 36 (1998): 21-7.

---. “De Quincey’s Discovery of Lyrical Ballads: The Politics of Reading.” Studies in Romanticism 36 (1997): 511-40.

---. “Three Uncollected Coleridgean Marginalia from De Quincey.” Notes and Queries 41 (1994): 330-6.

---. “Dreams and the Unconscious in Coleridge and De Quincey.” The Wordsworth Circle 24 (1993): 91-6.

---. “Autobiography as Identity: The Case of Thomas De Quincey.” Aligarh Critical Miscellany 4 (1991): 52-65.

Ronell, Avital. Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.

Roughead, William. “A Case for De Quincey.” Juridical Review 36 (1924): 295-321.

Russett, Margaret. De Quincey’s Romanticism: Canonical Minority and the Forms of Transmission. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Rzepka, Charles. “The ‘Dark Problem’ of Greek Tragedy: Sublimated Violence in De Quincey.” The Wordsworth Circle 29 (1998): 114-20.

---. “Thomas De Quincey’s ‘Three-Fingered Jack’: The West Indian Origins of the ‘Dark Interpreter.’” European Romantic Review 2 (1997): 117-38.

---. Sacramental Commodities: Gift, Text, and the Sublime in De Quincey. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995.

Sackville-West, Edward. A Flame in Sunlight: The Life and Works of Thomas De Quincey (London: Cassell, 1936; reprinted, ed. John E. Jordan, London: Bodley Head, 1974).

Saintsbury, George. “Thomas De Quincey” in The Collected Essays and Papers, 4 vols. London: Dent, 1923. 1: 210-38.

Schoenfield, Mark. “The Shifting Relic: Thomas De Quincey’s ‘Samuel Taylor Coleridge.’” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 12 (1998): 105-21.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. “Language as Live Burial: Thomas De Quincey.” The Coherence of Gothic Conventions. New York: Methuen, 1986. 37-96.

Spector, Stephen. “Thomas De Quincey: Self-Effacing Autobiographer.” Studies in Romanticism 18 (1979): 501-20.

Stapleton, Lawrence. “The Virtù of De Quincey.” The Elected Circle: Studies in the Art of Prose. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973. 119-65.

Sullivan, Margo Ann. Murder and Art: Thomas De Quincey and the Ratcliffe Highway Murders New York: Garland, 1987.

Symonds, Barry. “‘Do not suppose that I am underwriting myself’: The Labyrinth of De Quincey’s Manuscripts.” The Wordsworth Circle 29 (1998): 137-140.

---. “The Stranger’s Grave: Laying a De Quinceyan Ghost.“ The Charles Lamb Bulletin n.s. 83 (1993): 105–07.

Thron, E. Michael. “Thomas De Quincey and the Fall of Literature.” Thomas De Quincey: Bicentenary Studies. Ed. Robert Lance Synder. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. 3-19.

Vann, J Don. “An Unpublished De Quincey Letter.” Philological Quarterly 50 (1971): 683-84.

Wellek, René. “De Quincey’s Status in the History of Ideas.” Philological Quarterly 23 (1944): 248-72.

Whale, John. Thomas De Quincey’s Reluctant Autobiography. London: Croom Helm, 1984.

---. “‘In a Stranger’s Ear’: De Quincey’s Polite Magazine Context.” Thomas De Quincey: Bicentenary Studies. Ed. Robert Lance Synder. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. 35-53.

Wilner, Joshua. “The Stewed Muse of Prose.” Modern Language Notes 104 (1989): 1085-98.

---. “Autobiography and Addiction: The Case of De Quincey.” Genre 14 (1981): 493-503.

Woodhouse, Richard. “Richard Woodhouse’s Cause Book: The Opium-Eater, the Magazine Wars, and the London Literary Scene in 1821.” Ed. Robert Morrison. The Harvard Library Bulletin 9 (1998): i-xxiv, 1-43.

Wordsworth, Jonathan. “Two Dark Interpreters: Wordsworth and De Quincey.” The Wordsworth Circle 17 (1986): 40-50.

Youngquist, Paul. “De Quincey’s Crazy Body.” PMLA 114 (1999): 346-58.

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Twenty-First-Century Scholarship

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Balfour, Ian. “On the Language of the Sublime and the Sublime Nation in De Quincey: Toward a Reading of ‘The English Mail-Coach.‘“ Thomas De Quincey: New Theoretical and Critical Directions. Ed. Robert Morrison and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts. London: Routledge, 2007. 165-86.

Boon, Marcus. The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Black, Joel. “National Bad Habits: Thomas De Quincey's Geography of Addiction.“ Thomas De Quincey: New Theoretical and Critical Directions. Ed. Robert Morrison and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts. London: Routledge, 2007. 143-64.

Brown, Daniel. “The Works of Thomas De Quincey: Volumes 8, 9, 12, 13, 17, 18.Studies in Romanticism 44 (2005): 87-99.

Burwick, Frederick. Thomas De Quincey: Knowledge and Power. London: Palgrave, 2001.

Clark, David L. “We ‘Other Prussians‘: Bodies and Pleasures in De Quincey and Late Kant.” European Romantic Review 14 (2003): 261-87.

Dalrymple, Theodore. “Poppycock.” The Wall Street Journal 25 May 2006.

---. Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy. New York: Encounter, 2006.

Dart, Gregory. “Chambers of Horror: De Quincey's ‘Postscript‘ to ‘On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts.‘” Thomas De Quincey: New Theoretical and Critical Directions. Ed. Robert Morrison and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts. London: Routledge, 2007. 187-210.

De Quincey, Thomas. On Murder. Ed. Robert Morrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

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---. The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Volume Three: Articles and Translations from the London Magazine, Blackwood’s Magazine and Others, 1821-24. Ed. Frederick Burwick. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2000.

---. The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Volume Four: Articles and Translations from the London Magazine; Walladmor, 1824-25. Ed. Frederick Burwick. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2000.

---. The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Volume Five: Articles from the Edinburgh Saturday Post, 1827-28. Ed. David Groves. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2000.

---. The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Volume Six: Articles from the Edinburgh Evening Post, Blackwood’s Magazine, and the Edinburgh Literary Gazette, 1826-29. Ed. David Groves and Grevel Lindop. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2000.

---. The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Volume Seven: Articles from the Edinburgh Literary Gazette and Blackwood’s Magazine, 1829-31. Ed. Robert Morrison. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2000.

---. The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Volume Eight: Articles from Blackwood’s Magazine and the Gallery of Portraits; Klosterheim: or, The Masque, 1831-32. Ed. Robert Morrison London: Pickering and Chatto, 2001.

---. The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Volume Nine: Articles from Blackwood’s Magazine and Tait’s Magazine, 1832-38. Ed. Grevel Lindop, Robert Morrison, and Barry Symonds. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2001.

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---. The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Volume Eleven: Articles from Tait’s Magazine and Blackwood’s Magazine, 1838-41. Ed. Julian North. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2003.

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---. The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Volume Thirteen: Articles from Blackwood’s Magazine and the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1841-42. Ed. Grevel Lindop and John Whale. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2001.

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---. The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Volume Seventeen: Articles from Hogg’s Instructor and Tait’s Magazine, 1850-52. Ed. Edmund Baxter. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2001.

---. The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Volume Eighteen: Articles from Hogg’s Instructor and Titan, 1853-58. Ed. Edmund Baxter. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2001.

---. The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Volume Nineteen: Autobiographic Sketches. Ed. Daniel Sanjiv Roberts. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2003.

---. The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Volume Twenty: Prefaces &c. to the Collected Editions; Published Addenda; Marginalia; Manuscript Addenda; Undatable Manuscripts. Ed. Grevel Lindop, et al. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2003.

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Derrida, Jacques. “The Rhetoric of Drugs.” High Culture: Reflections on Addiction and Modernity. Ed. Anna Alexander and Mark S. Roberts. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. 19-43.

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Maniquis, Robert. “Introduction.” Studies in Romanticism 44 (2005): 3-5.

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Schmitt, Cannon, “Narrating National Addictions: De Quincey, Opium, and Tea.“ High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction. Ed. Janet Farrell Brodie and Marc Redfield. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 63-84.

Simmons, Diane. “Thomas De Quincey: Dreams of China.” The Narcissism of Empire: Loss, Rage, and Revenge in Thomas De Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, and Isak Dinesen. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press, 2007. 28-43.

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Worthington, Heather. “Connoisseur of crime: De Quincey’s defence of the ‘Murd’rous Art.’“ The Rise of the Detective in Early Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction. London: Palgrave, 2005. 21-30.

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