Life of the Author: Thomas De Quincey

Life of the Author: Thomas De Quincey

Keanie, Andrew

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

07/2025

224

Mole

9781119833253

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Acknowledgements xi

Research Sources xiii

Abbreviations xv

Preface xvii

The Recent Biographies xxvii

1 Roots 1

2 Finding the Romantics 5

3 Founding Romanticism 8

4 Conditions of an English Poetry Reader 12

5 Into the Depths: William Wordsworth's Prelude 24

6 Death, Dreams and the Far East 43

7 We Are Britain 55

8 As Headstrong as an Allegory on the Banks of the Thames 80

9 Suspiria via Xenophobia 88

10 The Irish Question and Some Shapeshifting 100

11 Murder Most Preludial: Macbeth 114

12 Murder Most Metaphorical: Liquidating a Rival Life-Writer 119

13 Confessions of a Self-Justified Stylist 130

14 Conditions of an English Counterculture 138

15 Conditions of an English Leg-Puller 153

Conclusion: Suspiria De Quincey (Sighs from the Depths of English Romanticism) 169

Bibliography 177

Index 183
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Thomas De Quincey biography; English romanticism; romantic writers; Wordsworth and Coleridge; De Quincey life and works; opium addiction and literature; literary biography; De Quincey essays; English romantic literature history; romanticism studies