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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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Description
xii, 187 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subject
  • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
  • Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
  • Substance abuse in art
  • Art and society > Great Britain
  • Drug addiction
  • Drug abuse
  • Substance-Related Disorders
  • Medicine in the Arts
  • Stereotyping
  • drug addiction
  • drug abuse
  • Art and society
  • United Kingdom
  • Great Britain
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