Colonial Influence, Opium Trade, and Romantic Imagination: A Postcolonial Reading of Thomas De Quincey’s “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Quest Journal of Management and Social Sciences October 7, 2026 Udaya Raj Paudel
Background: Romantic literary scholarship has increasingly examined the relationship between Romantic imagination and British imperial expansion, yet the material role of colonial commodities in shaping metropolitan consciousness remains comparatively underexplored. Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater provides a significant site for examining this relationship because its...