Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing
2019.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Springer eBooks.
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39886773*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
