Suspiria de Profundis

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Suspiria de Profundis is a collection of autobiographical and visionary prose writings by Thomas De Quincey, noted for its dreamlike style and exploration of memory, opium use, and the subconscious.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf autobiographical work
literary work
prose collection
visionary literature
author Thomas De Quincey
linked to: Thomas de Quincey
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstPublicationCentury 19th century
firstPublishedIn Blackwood's Magazine
genre Romantic literature
autobiographical prose
visionary prose
hasPart Dream-Fugue
Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
Savannah-la-Mar
The Apparition of the Brocken
linked to: Brocken spectre

The English Mail-Coach
The Palimpsest of the Human Brain
Vision of Sudden Death
influenced Gothic literature
horror fiction
modernist literature
psychoanalytic literary criticism
symbolist writers
inspired Dario Argento's film Suspiria
linked to: Suspiria

Three Mothers myth
language English
literaryMovement Romanticism
literaryPeriod Victorian era
narrativeMode first-person narration
notableFor depiction of opium use
dreamlike style
exploration of memory
exploration of the subconscious
hallucinatory imagery
introspective narrative voice
originalMedium magazine
publicationForm periodical
relatedWork Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
style digressive structure
lyrical essayistic form
ornate prose
subjectMatter author's inner life
autobiographical reflections
philosophical meditations
theme death
dreams
effects of opium
guilt
memory
the unconscious mind
time

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Thomas de Quincey notableWork Suspiria de Profundis