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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 manifestationshuman, animal, and microbiological. This remarkable book, which is an account of De Quinceys fears of all things oriental, is also an extraordinary analysis of the psychopathology of mid-Victorian imperialist culture. John Barrell paints a picture of De Quincey as a happy family man, apparently at ease with himself and with the rest of the world, but in fact harboring and expressing the most ferocious and brutal denunciation of Orientals of all kinds and dreaming of exacting from them a terrible retribution. Barrell shows that throughout De Quinceys writings there is a repeated story of the murder or violation of a female victimeither within or outside De Quinceys familyby an oriental criminal This story finds its way into almost everything he the various versions of his autobiography, his novels and short stories, his b

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Author

John Barrell; Professor of English and Co-Director Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies John Barrell

Publisher

New Haven: Yale University Press

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300049329

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Psychology

Rating

5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14