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15 August 1785 - 7 December 1859
British journalist and essayist best remembered now for his chronicle of opium addiction; while not particularly "Gothic" in the customary Romantic-period sense of the term, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, especially "The Pains of Opium" section, is a compelling psychological study (in the days before psychology-as-science) of a mind's darker energies and their weird and turbulent flow. And if that ain't Gothic, nothing is.... |
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Thomas DeQuincey
An important DeQ site featuring a brief biographical note, a bibliography, a timeline, and more. [Robert Morrison, Queen's U (Kingston, Ontario)]
Biographical essay
[Hugh Sykes Davies, OurCivilization.com]
Biographical note
[Peter Landry]
Biographical note
[Wikipedia]
Brief biographical note
[History of Economic Thought]
Brief biographical note
[Modern History SourceBook]
Brief biographical note
[Gothic Labyrinth]
DeQuincey page
Brief biographical note focusing on the Confessions and DeQuincey's addiction to laudanum. [Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database, NYU School of Medicine]
Biographical note
[The Authors Calendar]
Brief biographical note
[Columbia Encyclopedia, Bartleby.com]
Brief biographical note 
[John W. Cousins, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, 1910]
DeQuincey Hyper-Concordance
Part of the The Victorian Literary Studies Archive, this concordance allows you to search the etext of De Quincey's Confessions....
Portraits
[National Portrait Gallery, London]
Etexts:
"The Avenger"
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
"On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts" |
 
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