Inventing The Addict - 9781558496804
Un libro in lingua di Susan Zieger edito da Univ of Massachusetts Pr, 2008
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Zieger (English, U. of California at Riverside) situates 19th century British and American fiction about addiction within its cultural contexts. She examines those moments when addiction and the addict become newly visible through changes in narrative and metaphor. Topics include the association between drug-taking and imperial knowledge in drug autobiographies such as De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, intemperance as self-enslavement in Uncle Tom's Cabin, similarities between representations of queer desire and addicted desire in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the rise of eugenics and the shifting understanding of addiction as racial defect in the vampire narratives of Bram Stoker's Dracula and Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Inventing The Addict
- Sottotitolo: Drugs, Race, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Susan Zieger
- Editore: Univ of Massachusetts Pr
- Collana: Univ of Massachusetts Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 30 Novembre '08
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : American literature 19th century History and criticism English literature 19th century History and criticism Addicts in literature
- Pagine: 304
- Dimensioni mm: 234 x 158 x 19
- ISBN-10: 1558496807
- EAN-13: 9781558496804