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Acknowledgements

In true De Quinceyian spirit, I am indebted to those who came before me. Without the scholarship of Grevel Lindop, readers of Thomas De Quincey would still be snowed-in beneath mountains of disordered material. The fine biographies by Grevel Lindop and Robert Morrison,
The Opium-Eater
and
The English Opium Eater
, were my constant guides, as was John Barrell's rich and provocative study,
The Infection of Thomas De Quincey
.

For reading and correcting the manuscript I am grateful to Paul Keegan and A. N. Wilson. Thanks are also due to the staff of the Rare Books Room of the British Library, William St Clair, Ada Wordsworth, my agent, Sarah Chalfant, my editor, Michael Fishwick, my copyeditor, Kate Johnson, and to the irreplaceable Anna Simpson.

Index

Abergavenny
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Ablass, William, 
here
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Ackroyd, Peter, 
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Advice to Opium-Eaters
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Aeschylus, 
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Albion and Evening Advertiser
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Alcibiades, 
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Alexander, Daniel Asher, 
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Alfoxden, 
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Allan Bank, 
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Altamont, Lord, 
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Ambleside, 
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Analytical Review
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Anderson, Mr, 
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Ann (prostitute), 
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Anti-Jacobin
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Arabian Nights
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story of ‘Aladdin', 
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Archimedes, 
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Arctic voyages, 
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Aristotle, 
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Athenaeum
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Austen, Jane, 
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autobiography, as literary form, 
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Bagehot, Walter, 
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Baird-Smith, Colonel 
here

Baker of Mannheim, the, 
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Ballard, J. G., 
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Balzac, Honoré de, 
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Bangor, 
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Banks, Joseph, 
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Barrett, Elizabeth, 
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Barrie, J. M., 
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Bastille, fall of, 
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Bath, 
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and De Quincey's early years, 
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Bath Abbey, 
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Baudelaire, Charles, 
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Bearcroft, Miss, 
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Beattie, James, 
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Beaumont, Sir George, 
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Beaumont, Lady, 
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beautiful, the, 
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see also 
sublime, the

Beckett, Samuel, 
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Belcher, Thomas, 
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Bell's Illustrated London Life
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Bellingham, John, 
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Benson, John, 
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Beowulf
, 
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Berkeley, Bishop, 
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Berlioz, Hector, 
here

Best, Anabela, 
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Beswick, Hannah, 
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Birmingham, 
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Blackwood, Robert, 
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Blackwood, William, 
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
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De Quincey parodied in, 
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De Quincey writes for, 
here
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and John Scott duel, 
here

love of the macabre, 
here

murder essays, 
here
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and parody, 
here

Poe and, 
here
,
here
,
here

rivalled by
Tait's
, 
here

Robert Blackwood takes over, 
here

seals Coleridge's reputation, 
here

superiority to
London Magazine
, 
here

takes revenge on De Quincey, 
here

Blake, Miss, 
here

Blake, William, 
here
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here
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here

Borges, Jorge Luis, 
here
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here
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here

‘Funes the Memorious', 
here

Boswell, James, 
here
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here
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here

Boughton, Sir Theophilus, 
here

Bracciolini, Poggio, 
here

Brasenose College, Oxford, 
here
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here

Bridgwater, 
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Bristol, 
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and De Quincey's early years, 
here