Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)

A selective list of online literary criticism for Thomas De Quincey, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites

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Literary Criticism

Jackson, Richard. "James Hogg and The Unfathomable Hell." Romanticism on the Net 28 (2002)

Logan, Peter Melville. A complete, book-length critical study, Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in 19th-Century British Prose (Univ. of California Press, 1997). "The British middle class of the early nineteenth century was defined by its nervous complaints - hysteria, hypochondria, vapours, melancholia, and other maladies. Peter Melville Logan explores the link between medical theories of nervous physiology and narrative issues central to the literary writing of the period." Covers Godwin, Hays, Edgeworth, De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, George Eliot's treatment of medicine in Middlemarch." California Digital Library

Morrison, Robert, ed. A review of Richard Woodhouse's Cause Book: The Opium-Eater. Reviewed by David Hogsette in Romanticism on the Net 21 (2001)

North, Julian. A review of Julian North's, De Quincey Reviewed: Thomas De Quincey's Critical Reception, 1821-1994 (Camden House, 1997). Reviewed by Robert Morrison in Romanticism on the Net 13 (February 1999)

O'Quinn, Daniel. "Ravishment Twice Weekly: De Quincey's Opera Pleasures." Romanticism on the Net, special issue on Opera and Nineteenth-Century Literature 34-35 (May-August 2004)

Roberts, Daniel Sanjiv. "Not 'Forsworn with Pink Ribbons': Hannah More, Thomas De Quincey, and the Literature of Power." Romanticism On the Net 25 (February 2002)

Roberts, Daniel Sanjiv. A review of Revisionary Gleam: De Quincey, Coleridge and th... Reviewed by Laura Roman in Romanticism on the Net 20 (November 2000)

Russett, Margaret. A review of Margaret Russett's De Quincey's Romanticism: Canonical Minority and the Forms of Transmission (Cambridge UP, 1997). Reviewed by Robert Morrison

A brief biography of De Quincey from Professor Landow's Victorian Web

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