Confessions of an English Opium-Eater remains its author's most
famous and frequently-read work and one of the period's central
statements about both the power and terror of imagination. De
Quincey describes the intense "pleasures" and harrowing "pains" 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.
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