Inventing the addict : drugs, race, and sexuality in nineteenth-century British and American literature /

Inventing the addict : drugs, race, and sexuality in nineteenth-century British and American literature /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zieger, Susan Marjorie
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Drug abuse > History.
Addicts > History.
Alcoholism in literature.
Drug abuse in literature.
Addicts in literature.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.