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

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

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


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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 Summary

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 of literary patterns for intensified, exploratory engagement with unattained possibility-resulting from literary intersections with addiction discourse. Early chapters consider how Romantics such as Thomas De Quincey created, with regard to drug habit, an idea of habitual craving that related to self-experimenting science and literary exploration; later chapters look at Victorians who drew from similar understandings while devising narratives of repetitive investigation. The authors considered include De Quincey, Percy Shelley, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Marie Corelli.


About Adam Colman

Adam Colman is a Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.

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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NPB9783030015893
9783030015893
3030015890
Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature by Adam Colman
New
Hardback
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2019-01-21
209
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