Kitson, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8947-4859
(2023)
'I can not muster a fiddle': De Quincey, Lamb, Opium and Addiction.
In:
The Coleridge Bulletin.
Friends of Coleridge, London, pp. 35-55.
ISBN 0968-0551
(In Press)
Abstract
This essay discusses the different associations of opium in the Romantic period. Whereas for De Quincey, opium, taken in the form of laudanum, had a transformative effect upon his writing, leading to terrible dependency, for Charles Lamb, opium was a drug and medicine associated not with creativity but his mundane work as a clerk for the East India Company in London
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing |
UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Research Group |
Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 14 Aug 2023 08:30 |
Last Modified: | 14 Aug 2023 08:30 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/92856 |
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