Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature

• Main Author: Colman, Adam (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; Great Britain-History.; British literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; History of Britain and Ireland.; British and Irish Literature.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.