The Infection of Thomas de Quincey: A Psychopathology of Imperialism

by John Barrell

Thomas De Quincey, best known for his book Confessions of an English Opium Eater, was a journalist and propagandist of Empire, of oriental aggression, and of racial paranoia. The greater part of the fourteen volumes of his collected writings concerns the history, the colonial development, and increasingly the threat presented by the Orient in all its manifestations--human, animal, and microbiological. This remarkable book, which is an account...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300049323
• ISBN13: 9780300049329
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"