ed. Grevel Lindop, 21 vols. (London, 2000–3).

Letters

De Quincey at Work, ed. W. H. Bonner (Buffalo, 1936).

De Quincey to Wordsworth, ed. John E. Jordan (Berkeley, 1963).

‘De Quincey and his Publishers’, ed. Barry Symonds, Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1994.

Criticism

Appleman, Philip, ‘D. H. Lawrence and the Intrusive Knock’, Modern Fiction Studies, 3 (1958), 328–32.

Barrell, John, The Infection of Thomas De Quincey (New Haven, 1991).

Baxter, Edmund, De Quincey’s Art of Autobiography (Edinburgh, 1990).

Benjamin, Walter, ‘Critique of Violence’, in Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings, ed. Peter Demetz, trans. Edmund Jephcott (New York, 1978), 277–300.

Black, Joel, The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture (Baltimore, 1991).

Breton, André, ‘Thomas De Quincey’, in Anthology of Black Humour, trans. Mark Polizzotti (San Francisco, 1997), 53–8.

Burke, Thomas, ‘The Obsequies of Mr Williams: New Light on De Quincey’s Famous Tale of Murder’, The Bookman, 68 (1928), 257–63.

Burwick, Frederick, ‘De Quincey and the Aesthetics of Violence’, Wordsworth Circle, 27 (1996), 78–86.

Byerly, Alison, ‘Accident or Murder? Intentionality, the Picturesque, and the Body of Thomas De Quincey’, Nineteenth-Century Prose, 29/2 (2002), 48–68.

Carnall, Geoffrey, ‘De Quincey on the Knocking at the Gate’, Review of English Literature, 2 (1961), 49–57.

Chandler, Raymond, ‘The Simple Art of Murder: An Essay’, in The Simple Art of Murder (New York, 1988), 1–18.

Cohen, Michael, Murder Most Fair (Madison, 2000).

Critchley, T. A., and James, P. D., The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811 (London, 1971).

De Luca, V. A., Thomas De Quincey: The Prose of Vision (Toronto, 1980). Goldman, Albert, The Mine and the Mint: Sources for the Writings of Thomas De Quincey (Carbondale, Ill., 1965).

Gossman, Ann, ‘On the Knocking at the Gate in “Markheim”’, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 17 (1962), 73–6.

Katz, Jack, Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions in Doing Evil (New York, 1988).

Leask, Nigel, ‘Toward a Universal Aesthetic: De Quincey on Murder as Carnival and Tragedy’, in Questioning Romanticism, ed. John Beer (Baltimore, 1995), 92–120.

Lehman, David, The Perfect Murder: A Study in Detection (Ann Arbor, 2000).

Leighton, Angela, ‘De Quincey and Women’, in Beyond Romanticism, ed. Stephen Copley and John Whale (London, 1992), 160–77.

Lindop, Grevel, ‘Innocence and Revenge: The Problem of De Quincey’s Fiction’, in Thomas De Quincey: Bicentenary Studies, ed. Robert Lance Snyder (Norman, Okla., 1985), 213–37.

Long, John C., ‘Thomas De Quincey, Clinician’, Wordsworth Circle, 24 (1993), 170–7.

McDonagh, Josephine, ‘Do or Die: Problems of Agency and Gender in the Aesthetics of Murder’, Genders, 5 (1989), 120–34.

Malkan, Jeffrey, ‘Aggressive Text: Murder and the Fine Arts Revisited’, Mosaic, 23 (1990), 101–14.

Mandel, Ernest, Delightful Murder: A Social History of the Crime Story (Minneapolis, 1984).

Mayoux, Jean-Jacques, ‘De Quincey: Humour and the Drugs’, in Veins of Humour, ed. Harry Levin (Cambridge, Mass., 1972), 109–29.

Moldenhauer, Joseph, ‘Murder as a Fine Art: Basic Connections between Poe’s Aesthetics, Psychology, and Moral Vision’, PMLA, 83 (1968), 284–97.

Morrison, Robert, ‘Poe’s De Quincey, Poe’s Dupin’, Essays in Criticism, 51/4 (2001), 424–41.

Most, Glenn W., and Stowe, William W. (eds.), The Poetics of Murder: Detective Fiction and Literary Theory (New York, 1983).

O’Quinn, Daniel, ‘Murder, Hospitality, Philosophy: De Quincey and the Complicitous Grounds of National Identity’, Studies in Romanticism, 38 (1999), 135–70.

Orwell, George, ‘Decline of the English Murder’, in Smothered under Journalism, 1946, ed. Peter Davison (London, 1998), 108–10.

Playfair, G. M. H., ‘De Quincey: The Murderer Williams’, Notes and Queries, 11th ser., 5 (January 1912), 6.

Plotz, Judith, ‘On Guilt Considered as One of the Fine Arts: De Quincey’s Criminal Imagination’, Wordsworth Circle, 19 (1988), 83–8.

Plumtree, A. S., ‘The Artist as Murderer: De Quincey’s Essay “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts”’, in Thomas De Quincey: Bicentenary Studies, ed. Robert Lance Snyder (Norman, Okla., 1985), 140–63.

Rzepka, Charles, Sacramental Commodities: Gift, Text, and the Sublime in De Quincey (Amherst, 1995).

Sartre, Jean-Paul, ‘On the Fine Arts Considered as Murder’, in Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr, trans. Bernard Frechtman (New York, 1963), 483–543.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, ‘Language as Live Burial: Thomas De Quincey’, in The Coherence of Gothic Conventions (New York, 1980), 37–96.

Senelick, Laurence, The Prestige of Evil: The Murderer as Romantic Hero from Sade to Lacenaire (New York, 1987).

Snyder, Robert Lance, ‘De Quincey’s Liminal Interspaces: On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts”’, Nineteenth-Century Prose, 28/2 (2001), 102–18.

Stephen, Leslie, ‘The Decay of Murder’, Cornhill Magazine, 20 (December 1869), 722–33.

Sullivan, Margo Ann, Murder and Art: Thomas De Quincey and the Ratcliffe Highway Murders (New York, 1987).

Super, Robert H., ‘De Quincey and a Murderer’s Conscience’, Times Literary Supplement (5 December 1936), 1016.

Whale, John, ‘“In a Stranger’s Ear”: De Quincey’s Polite Magazine Context’, in Thomas De Quincey: Bicentenary Studies, ed.