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Addiction and British visual culture, 1751-1919 : wasted looks
- Title
- Addiction and British visual culture, 1751-1919 : wasted looks / Julia Skelly.
- Author
- Skelly, Julia
- Publication
- Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2014]
- ©2014
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Details
- Description
- xii, 187 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-178) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : the visual politics of addiction -- Wasted mothers : reading William Hogarth's Gin lane -- From graphic satire to temperance art : George Cruikshank's addiction to sobriety -- Addictive architecture : the Crystal Palace, gin palaces and women's consumption -- Closeting addiction : confinement, punishment, concealment -- Advertising masculine vulnerability : cocaine and cigarettes after the 1st World War -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 9781409435563
- 1409435563
- LCCN
- 2013036011
- OCLC
- ocn829961754
- 829961754
- SCSB-1788000
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library