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Author:   Robert Morrison (Queen's National Scholar, Queen's National Scholar, Queen's University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 21.80cm
Weight:   0.824kg
ISBN:  

9780199676897

ISBN 10:   0199676895
Pages:   658
Publication Date:   07 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

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

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Robert Morrison's new edition is a good place to start exploring De Quincey. * Dane Darcy, King's College London, Time Literary Supplement *

Robert Morrison's new edition is a good place to start exploring De Quincey. * Jane Darcy, King's College London, Time Literary Supplement *

Author Information

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.

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