The Works of Thomas De Quincey (The Pickering Masters) (v. 1-21) [Hardcover]

Thomas De Quincey (Author), Barry Symonds (Author), Grevel Lindop (Author)

Book Description

Series: The Pickering Masters | Publication Date: May 2003

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is one of the greatest English prose writers of the nineteenth century. He deeply influenced Edgar Allan Poe and numbers Dickens, Proust and Virginia Woolf among his many fans. This edition includes virtually all of De Quincey's published work plus the bulk of his unpublished manuscripts. Highlights include: De Quincey on murder, Autobiographical Sketches, his 1803 Diary, writings on politics, economics, literary theory and his contributions to the Edinburgh Saturday Post. At 21 volumes, this edition is committed to completeness. Texts are drawn from the first published versions, with variants from the author's revised editions, and a full second version provided where he thoroughly recast his own work at a later date. The bulk of de Quincey's unpublished manuscripts are presented here, among them several works only recently re-discovered. For example, in Volume 2, the transcript of the manuscript to Part I of Confessions of an English Opium Eater, discovered in 1989, is published for the first time. Almost every volume contains important material never previously published. Modern scholarship on De Quincey has progressed so far in recent times as to make the acquisition of an up-to-date set of his works a necessity for any institution where serious study of De Quincey, Romantic and Victorian literature take place.

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Review

'a fine combination of painstaking scholarship and critical tact' Times Literary Supplement

About the Author

Grevel Lindop is at the University of Manchester Edmund Baxter is an independent scholar Frederick Burwick is at the University of California, Los Angeles Alina Clej is at the University of Michigan David Groves is an independent scholar Robert Morrison is at Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada Julian North is at De Montfort University Daniel Roberts is at Queen's University, Belfast Laura Roman is at Worcester College, Oxford Barry Symonds is at the University of Manchester John Whale is at the University of Leeds

Product Details

• Hardcover: 10368 pages
• Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Ltd (May 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1851960546
• ISBN-13: 978-1851960545
• Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 10 x 9.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 40.5 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,327,516 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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