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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
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature
- Alcoholics in literature
- Literature and society > England > History > 19th century
- Didactic fiction, English > History and criticism
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880 > Characters > Narcotic addicts
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880 > Political and social views
- Drug addiction in literature
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880 > Characters > Alcoholics
- Alcoholism in literature
- Social problems in literature
- 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