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The
Thomas DeQuincey Homepage -- Helpful texts and links. Prepared
by Robert Morrison
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The Victorians and Laudanum
-- A brief description of the drug DeQuincey was addicted to. Laudanum,
a mixture of opium and alcohol, remained a popular pain-killer throughout
the nineteenth century.
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Dreaming DeQuincey
-- A hypertext "trip" through selected passages of Confessions of an
English Opium Eater. Prepared by Bethany Nowviske, University
of Virginia.
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Piranesi's The
Arch with a Shell Ornament -- In Confessions, DeQuincey
describes how his dreams sometimes resembled the convoluted, maze-like
architecture of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Imaginary Prisons (1761).
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