I: Plague, Fire      II: Philadelphia           III: Circulation                   IV: Urban Limits     VI: Reform              VII: Expositions


Transatlantic Traffic:
London, Philadelphia, and the World, 1665-1876
Unit 5: Tripping
Additional Materials



  • The Thomas De Quincey Page and an extremely interesting hypertext project entitled Dreaming De Quincey; it's best first to read the Author's Note explaining the project.

  • Britannica's entries on Opium, the Opium Trade, and the Opium Wars.

  • PBS's excellent site called the Opium Kings, a thirty-year investigative report into the opium and heroin trade.





    Unit 5: Tripping

    Week 9

    Mar 4: Read William Wordsworth, "Composed on Westminster Bridge, 1802" (photocopy) and The Prelude, Book VII ("Residence in London"; photocopy). Begin Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, pp. 29-69. Recommended: Porter, London: A Social History, Chapter 8.

    Mar 6: Read Edgar Allan Poe, "The Man of the Crowd" (photocopy), and De Quincey, pp. 70-116.

    Mar 8: No class.

    March 9 through March 17-Spring break.

    Week 10

    Mar 18: Fanny Kemble, Journals, pp. 22-97.

    Mar 20: Fanny Kemble, Journals, pp. 98-201.

    Recitation Mar 22: We will be meeting with one of the reference librarians in the Van Pelt Library to give you an introduction to conducting research. Details to be announced.