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Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature by Adam Colman.

This book explores the rise of the aesthetic category of addiction in the nineteenth century, a century that saw the development of an established medical sense of drug addiction. Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature focuses especially on formal invention--on the uses o...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Colman, Adam (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.
Subjects:
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
Great Britain-History.
British literature.
Literature, Modern.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Shelley, Alcohol, and the "world we make": Habit's Patterns in The Cenci
  • 3. The Labyrinths of De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
  • 3. From Lotos-Eaters to Lotus-Eaters: Tennyson's and Rossetti's Mediated Addiction
  • 5. Bleak House's Addictive Detective-Work
  • 6. Optative Movement and Drink in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  • 7. Epilogue: Generic Variety in Marie Corelli's Wormwood and Beyond.

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