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- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 August 2022
- ISBN 9780192868046
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages658 pages
- Size 216x139x25 mm
- Weight 676 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 black-and-white halftones 284
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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.
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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.
Thomas De Quincey: 21st-Century Oxford Authors is the most comprehensive selection of De Quincey's writings published in decades, and includes all the essays that made him a major figure in his own age, and that give him a burgeoning relevance in ours. The volume features complete versions of his three most famous works of impassioned autobiography?Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821), Suspiria de Profundis (1845), and 'The English Mail-Coach' (1849)?as well as a great deal of manuscript material related to these works, and an extensive selection from his revised version of the Confessions (1856). It contains all three of his essays 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' (1827, 1839, and 1854), the first two instalments of which are brilliant exercises in satirical high jinks, and the final instalment of which is a graphic account of the notorious Radcliffe Highway killings of 1811. It features lengthy excerpts from De Quincey's biographical recollections of 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge' (1834) and 'William Wordsworth' (1839), both of whom De Quincey admired intensely, though his personal relationship with both poets eventually collapsed into bitterness and self-justification. It features De Quincey's finest pieces of literary criticism, including 'On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth' (1823) and his two searching examinations of 'The Literature Knowledge and the Literature of Power' (1823 and (1848).
The edition includes an Introduction to the life and works of De Quincey, and a Chronology, which enhance the study, understanding, and enjoyment of these works.
One of the themes that emerges in Robert Morrison's impressive edition of De Quincey's selected works, in Oxford University Press's '21st Century Oxford Authors' series, is the extent to which the author was awed by the sheer quantity of print, the mass of books and magazines, circulating among readers in Britain and abroad, on a scale never before known...Although these are not the themes that Robert Morrison chooses to highlight in this elegant and beautifully produced volume, they are nonetheless evident throughout the selection of works that he presents. With his surefooted editorial stance, Morrison leads us through a rich selection of De Quincey's greatest hits.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Note on the Text
Chronology
Part I
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Manuscript and Other Material related to Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
From Letters to a Young Man Whose Education has been Neglected [The Literature of Knowledge and The Literature of Power]
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
From Elements of Rhetoric
From Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From Lake Reminiscences, from 1807 to 1830
Second Paper On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
From Style
Suspiria de Profundis
Part II
Manuscript Material related to Suspiria de Profundis
From The Works of Alexander Pope
The English Mail-Coach
Manuscript Material related to The English Mail-Coach
From the Preface to Selections Grave and Gay
Explanatory Notices of The English Mail-Coach
Postscript to On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
Letter to Emily De Quincey
From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1856
Notes
Index
Prophecy and Its Cultic Dimensions
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