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Inventing the addict : drugs, race, and sexuality in nineteenth-century British and American literature
- Title
- Inventing the addict : drugs, race, and sexuality in nineteenth-century British and American literature / Susan Zieger.
- Author
- Zieger, Susan Marjorie.
- Publication
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 304 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-964
- ISBN
- 1558496807 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781558496804 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1558496793 (library cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781558496798 (library cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008031442
- OCLC
- 229308937
- Author
- Zieger, Susan Marjorie.
- Title
- Inventing the addict : drugs, race, and sexuality in nineteenth-century British and American literature / Susan Zieger.
- Imprint
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-293) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-964