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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater remains its authorâs most famous and frequently-read work and one of the periodâs central statements about both the power and terror of imagination. De Quincey describes the intense âpleasuresâ and harrowing âpainsâ of his opium use in lyrical and dramatic prose. A notorious success since its 1821 publication, the work has been an important influence on philosophers, theorists, and psychologists, as well as literary writers, of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But Confessions is only one part of a larger confessional project conceived by De Quincey over the course of his writing career. Gathered together in this edition, these texts provide a fascinating glimpse of early nineteenth-century British aesthetic, medical, psychological, political, philosophical, social, racial, national, and imperialist attitudes.
This edition includes the 1821 text of Confessions, its important sequel Suspiria de Profundis (1845), and its sequel, The English Mail-Coach (1849), as well as extensive appendices.
About: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater remains its authorâs most famous and frequently-read work and one of the periodâs central statements about both the power and terror of imagination.
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