A selective bibliography of open access internet articles on Thomas De Quincey, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Jackson, Richard. "James Hogg and The Unfathomable Hell" in Romanticism on the Net no 28, 2002
Logan, Peter Melville. A complete, book-length critical study, Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in 19th-Century British Prose (Univ. of California Press, 1997). "The British middle class of the early nineteenth century was defined by its nervous complaints - hysteria, hypochondria, vapours, melancholia, and other maladies. Peter Melville Logan explores the link between medical theories of nervous physiology and narrative issues central to the literary writing of the period." Covers Godwin, Hays, Edgeworth, De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, George Eliot's treatment of medicine in Middlemarch." Courtesy of the California Digital Library
Morrison, Robert, ed. A review of Richard Woodhouse's Cause Book: The Opium-Eater. Reviewed by David Hogsette in Romanticism on the Net no 21, 2001
North, Julian. A review of Julian North's, De Quincey Reviewed: Thomas De Quincey's Critical Reception, 1821-1994 (Camden House, 1997). Reviewed by Robert Morrison in Romanticism on the Net 13 (February 1999)
O'Quinn, Daniel. "Ravishment Twice Weekly: De Quincey's Opera Pleasures." In Romanticism on the Net, special issue on Opera and Nineteenth-Century Literature, Issues 34-35 (May-August 2004)
Roberts, Daniel Sanjiv. "Not 'Forsworn with Pink Ribbons': Hannah More, Thomas De Quincey, and the Literature of Power." Romanticism On the Net 25 (February 2002)
Roberts, Daniel Sanjiv. A review of Revisionary Gleam: De Quincey, Coleridge and th... Reviewed by Laura Roman in Romanticism on the Net 20 (November 2000)
Russett, Margaret. A review of Margaret Russett's De Quincey's Romanticism: Canonical Minority and the Forms of Transmission (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997). Reviewed by Robert Morrison
A biography for Thomas De Quincey from the Books and Writers web site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
A brief biography of De Quincey from Professor George Landow's Victorian Web
An entry on De Quincey from literature web site by medical students at NY University
Older criticism on De Quincey, from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21)
Romanticism on the Net an international, peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to British Romantic studies, edited by Michael Eberle-Sinatra. One of the most impressive scholarly enterprises devoted to English literature on the internet, the journal has been making essays freely available since 1996
Romantic Circles, "a refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture," is an innovative publication on topics in Romanticism. Edited by Neil Fraistat, Steven E. Jones and Carl Stahmer
"A Romantic Natural History" focuses on relationships between literary works and natural history in the century before Darwin, with articles on the Romantics. By Professor Ashton Nichols
For a list of De Quincey's etexts available on the internet, use this link to the On-Line Books Page, a search engine from John Mark Ockerbloom that provides links to full texts on the internet
A succinct secondary bibliography from Adriana Craciun for the Romantics (removed)
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