The infection of Thomas De Quincey: a psychopathology of imperialism
John Barrell • Yale University Press • ISBN-13 978‑0300049329
The infection of Thomas De Quincey: a psychopathology of imperialism
John Barrell • Yale University Press
ISBN-10: 0300049323 · ISBN-13: 978‑0300049329 · 1991
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John Barrell examines the complex intersection of Thomas De Quincey’s opium addiction and his role as a prominent propagandist for the British Empire. Through a rigorous psychoanalytic lens, the text explores how De Quincey’s anxieties regarding the 'oriental' other informed his literary output and shaped his perception of imperial expansion. This study provides a critical analysis of how personal pathology and geopolitical ideology converged within the nineteenth-century British imagination.
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