drugs, race, and sexuality in nineteenth-century British and American literature /
First Statement of Responsibility
Susan Zieger.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Amherst :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Massachusetts Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xi, 304 pages)
GENERAL NOTES
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OldControl:muse9781613761809.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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Title
Inventing the addict.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Addicts-- History.
Addicts in literature.
Alcoholism in literature.
American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Drug abuse-- History.
Drug abuse in literature.
English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.