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Author:

Zieger, Susan Marjorie.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Massachusetts Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xi, 304 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Addicts in literature.
Drug abuse in literature.
Alcoholism in literature.
Addicts--History.
Drug abuse--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-293) and index.

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-siècle Britain; "Afflictions à 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.

ISBN:

1558496793 (library cloth : alk. paper)
9781558496798 (library cloth : alk. paper)
1558496807 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781558496804 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2008031442

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)