Thomas DeQuincey

DeQuincey, Thomas

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....

Sites:
Thomas DeQuincey
An important DeQ site featuring a brief biographical note, a bibliography, a timeline, and more. [Robert Morrison, Queen's U (Kingston, Ontario)]

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Biographical essay
[Hugh Sykes Davies, OurCivilization.com]
Biographical note
[Peter Landry]
Biographical note
[Wikipedia]
Biographical note
[NNDB.com]
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 a LitGothic etext
[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....
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Portraits
[National Portrait Gallery, London]


Etexts:
"The Avenger"
- at Persian Gig (Word)
- at Harvest Fields (123K)


Confessions of an English Opium Eater
- at WorldWide School
- at UPenn (Project Gutenberg etext, 237K)


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"On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts"
- at Pataphysics Lab (PDF)
- at Blackmask (multiple formats)



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