Kitson, Peter (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)

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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
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
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Date Deposited:	14 Aug 2023 08:30
Last Modified:	16 Jun 2026 20:37
URI:	https://uea-test-2026.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/92856
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