Inventing the Addict Drugs, Race, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature |
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| Author:
| Zieger, Susan |
| ISBN: | 978-1-55849-680-4 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2008 |
| Publisher: | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $35.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.