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George Eliot and intoxication : dangerous drugs for the condition of England

Title
George Eliot and intoxication : dangerous drugs for the condition of England / Kathleen McCormack.
Author
McCormack, Kathleen, 1944-
Publication
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

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Description
234 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
  • "Throughout George Eliot's fiction, not only do a remarkable number of her characters act under the influence of unwise consumption of alcohol and opium, but these drugs also recur often as metaphors and allusions.".
  • "George Eliot's constructions of drug-consuming characters (especially parental characters), analyzed in a context freshly drawn from a variety of Warwickshire local histories, demonstrate how intricately she connects medical, aesthetic, political, cultural, and gender issues of her period through references to intoxication.
  • Kathleen McCormack also describes George Eliot's forward-thinking theory of addiction and concludes with a radical biographical speculation concerning Christiana Pearson Evans, the novelist's shadowy mother."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-229) and index.
Contents
1. George Eliot and Victorian Intoxication -- 2. Backgrounds and Landscapes -- 3. The Early Fiction -- 4. Public Houses: Unstable Language in Dangerous Places -- 5. Parables of Addiction -- 6. Romola: San Buonvino -- 7. Felix Holt's Muddled Metaphors -- 8. Middlemarch: 'Profit Out of Poisonous Pickles' -- 9. Daniel Deronda: After the Opium Wars -- Epilogue: A Biographical Speculation.
ISBN
0312227116
LCCN
99033013
OCLC
  • 41468738
  • ocm41468738
  • SCSB-3837867
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries