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High anxieties : cultural studies in addiction

Title
High anxieties : cultural studies in addiction / Janet Farrell Brodie and Marc Redfield, editors.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Brodie, Janet Farrell.
  • Redfield, Marc, 1958-
Description
ix, 232 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Substance abuse > Social aspects
  • Drugs and literature
  • Drugs and motion pictures
  • Alcoholism in literature
  • Alcoholism in motion pictures
  • Virtual reality > Social aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Addiction and the ends of desire / Stacey Margolis -- A terminal case: William Burroughs and the logic of addiction / Timothy Melley -- Narrating national addictions: De Quincey, opium, and tea / Cannon Schmitt -- Victorian highs: detection, drugs, and empire / Marty Roth -- The rhetoric of addiction: from Victorian novels to AA / Robyn R. Warhol -- Firewater legacy: alcohol and Native American identity in the fiction of James Fenimore Cooper / Nicholas O. Warner -- Smoking, addiction, and the making of time / Helen Keane -- An intoxicated screen: reflections on film and drugs / Maurizio Viano -- Welcome to the pharmacy: addiction, transcendence, and virtual reality / Ann Weinstone -- If "reality is the best metaphor," it must be virtual / Marguerite Waller.
Call Number
JFE 03-724
ISBN
  • 0520227506 (Cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520227514 (Paper : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002002289
OCLC
49029613
Title
High anxieties : cultural studies in addiction / Janet Farrell Brodie and Marc Redfield, editors.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Brodie, Janet Farrell.
Redfield, Marc, 1958-
Research Call Number
JFE 03-724
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