Thomas de Quincey

Biographical Materials

• Biography
• Works
• de Quincey’s Victorian reputation — an essay from the 1863 Reader

Confessions of an English Opium Eater

• Full text
• Commentary
• Ailleurs intérieurs : l’errance chez Thomas De Quincey
• «Painting Upon the Darkness»: les visions artistiques de Thomas De Quincey

Related Material

• Addiction (sitemap)
• Representations of drugs in nineteenth-century literature
• De Quincey and epiphanies

Social and political contexts

• England and China: The Opium Wars, 1839-60
• The Consumption of Opium in China
• The Principle of Extraterritoriality and the Opium Wars, 1839-60
• Commissioner Lin Ze-xu's Letter to Queen Victoria

Other complete texts

• “Secret Societies”

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Last modified 23 July 2016