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Colman, Adam.

Drugs and the addiction aesthetic in nineteenth-century literature

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Drugs and the addiction aesthetic in nineteenth-century literatureby Adam Colman.
Author:	Colman, Adam.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019.
Description:	vii, 209 p. :digital ;23 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	English literatureHistory and criticsm.19th century
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01590-9
ISBN:	9783030015909$q(electronic bk.)

Drugs and the addiction aesthetic in nineteenth-century literature
Colman, Adam.

Drugs and the addiction aesthetic in nineteenth-century literature[electronic resource] /by Adam Colman. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019. - vii, 209 p. :digital ;23 cm. - Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine. - Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine..

1. Introduction -- 2. Shelley, Alcohol, and the "world we make": Habit's Patterns in The Cenci -- 3. The Labyrinths of De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater -- 3. From Lotos-Eaters to Lotus-Eaters: Tennyson's and Rossetti's Mediated Addiction -- 5. Bleak House's Addictive Detective-Work -- 6. Optative Movement and Drink in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde -- 7. Epilogue: Generic Variety in Marie Corelli's Wormwood and Beyond.

This book explores the rise of the aesthetic category of addiction in the nineteenth century, a century that saw the development of an established medical sense of drug addiction. Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature focuses especially on formal invention--on the uses of literary patterns for intensified, exploratory engagement with unattained possibility--resulting from literary intersections with addiction discourse. Early chapters consider how Romantics such as Thomas De Quincey created, with regard to drug habit, an idea of habitual craving that related to self-experimenting science and literary exploration; later chapters look at Victorians who drew from similar understandings while devising narratives of repetitive investigation. The authors considered include De Quincey, Percy Shelley, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Marie Corelli.

ISBN: 9783030015909$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-01590-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

838021
English literature
--History and criticsm.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PR468.D78 / C65 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 820.93556

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