Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature 2019 Edition Contributor(s): Colman, Adam (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030015890 ISBN-13: 9783030015893 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $80.74 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 809.034 |
Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine |
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.91 lbs) 209 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |