Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Thomas De Quincey: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) Suspiria de Profundis (1845) The English Mail-Coach (1849)
Appendix A: Related Texts and Prefaces
- From Charles Lamb, “Confessions of a Drunkard” (1813)
- From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan” (1816)
- From “Letter from the English Opium Eater,” London Magazine (1821)
- From the Appendix to Confessions of An English Opium-Eater, London Magazine (1822)
- From General Preface to Selections Grave and Gay (1853)
- From the Explanatory Notice to Volume Four of Selections Grave and Gay (1854)
- From the Prefatory Notice to Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1856)
- From “The Dark Interpreter” (1845?)
- Manuscript list for proposed plan of Suspiria de Profundis (1891)
- From Book Five of William Wordsworth, The Prelude (1850)
Appendix B: Reviews, Letters, Notes
- From James Montgomery, Sheffield Iris (1821)
- From Medico-Chirurgical Review (1822)
- From The British Critic (1822)
- From The British Review, and London Critical Journal (1822)
- From The Monthly Review (1823)
- From The Eclectic Review (1823)
- From The North American Review (1824)
- From George Gilfillan, The Eclectic Review (1850)
- From David Masson, British Quarterly Review (1854)
- From The Eclectic Review (1854)
- From Letter from De Quincey to his daughter Emily (1855)
- From The Athenæum (1859)
- From British Quarterly Review (1863)
Appendix C: The Opium Question: History and Politics
- From Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier (1677)
- From Sir John Chardin, The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (1686)
- From William Marsden, The History of Sumatra (1783)
- From Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (1806)
- From David Ricardo, The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817)
- From R.R. Madden, Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine (1833)
- From John Francis Davis, The Chinese:A General Description of The Empire of China and Its Inhabitants (1836)
- From Samuel Morewood, A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customs of Ancient and Modern Nations in the Manufacture and Use of Inebriating Liquors (1838)
- From W.H. Medhurst, China: Its State and Prospects, with Especial Reference to the Spread of the Gospel (1838)
- From Rev. Algernon S. Thelwall, The Iniquities of the Opium Trade with China (1839)
- From Thomas De Quincey, “The Opium and the China Question,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (1840)
Appendix D: The Opium Question: Medicine and Psychology
- From Andrew Baxter, An Enquiry into the Nature of the Human Soul (1737)
- From George Young, A Treatise on Opium, Founded upon Practical Observations (1753)
- From John Awsiter, An Essay on the Effects of Opium (1767)
- From Samuel Crumpe, An Inquiry into the Nature and Properties of Opium (1793)
- From “Dreams,” Encyclopædia Britannica (1797)
- From Thomas Trotter, A View of the Nervous Temperament (1807)
- From Robert Macnish, The Anatomy of Drunkenness (1827)
- From “The Narcotics We Indulge In,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
- From Mordecai C. Cooke, The Seven Sisters of Sleep (1860)
- From Henry Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life (1923)
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