Inventing the Addict : Drugs, Race, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-century British and American Literature
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1558496807
ISBN-13
9781558496804
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Imprint
University of Massachusetts Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 30th, 2008
Print length
360 Pages
Weight
434 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.70 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Illness & addiction: social aspects
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Tells the story of how the addict, a person uniquely torn between disease and desire, emerged from a variety of figures such as drunkards, opium-eating scholars, vicious slave masters, dissipated New Women, and queer doctors. This book traces the evolution of the concept of addiction through a series of recurrent metaphors.
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