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Inventing the Addict Drugs, Race, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature / Susan Zieger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zieger, Susan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drug abuse--History.
- Drug abuse.
- Addicts--History.
- Addicts.
- Alcoholism in literature.
- Drug abuse in literature.
- Addicts in literature.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 304 p. )
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book reconstructs the literary and cultural history of addiction from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.
- Contents:
- Part I. Travel, exile, and self-enslavement: Pioneers of inner space: drug autobiography and manifest destiny; "Mankind has been drunk": race and addiction in Uncle Tom's cabin; Impostors of freedom: hypodermic morphine and the labors of passing in E. P. Roe's Without a home
- Part II. Disease, desire, and defect: Needling desires: women, morphinomania, and self-representation in fin-de-siecle Britain; "Afflictions a la Oscar Wilde": the strange case of addiction and sexuality in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Un-death and bare life: addiction and eugenics in Dracula and The blood of the vampire.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-180-5
- OCLC:
- 794701571
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