Thomas De Quinceys Confessions Engage in synthesis research where you bring together what a number of different people have said about a text.
With synthesis research, you will want to add something to the scholarly discussion already taking place.
Write a synthesis research paper on Thomas De Quincey’s “Confessions of an English Opium Eater” arguing how the novel was just as informed by Orientalism as it was by opium. I will provide the sources that must be used in the paper.
There will be a chapter from one book.
Two journal articles by the same person.
Edward Said’s “Orientalism“.
https://monoskop.org/images/4/4e/Said_Edward_Orientalism_1979.pdf
Thomas De Quincey’s “Confessions of an English Opium Eater”
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2040/2040-h/2040-h.htm
