SOURCE: “Opium and the Imperial Imagination,” in Reviewing Romanticism, edited by Philip W. Martin and Robin Jarvis, Macmillan, 1992, pp. 116-33.
In the following excerpt, McDonagh discusses Thomas DeQuincey's writings on the political situation in China in the 1830s and 1840s in light of what those writings suggest about the connection between his aesthetics and politics.
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