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

Title: Inventing the addict [electronic resource] : drugs, race, and sexuality in nineteenth-century British and American literature / Susan Zieger.
Author: Zieger, Susan Marjorie.
Publication: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.

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1 online resource (xi, 304 p.)

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Inventing the addict (Online)

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Inventing the addict (Online)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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