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Colman, Adam
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Drugs and the addiction aesthetic in nineteenth-century literature /\ Adam Colman.
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2019]
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Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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1 online resource
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3030015904
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3030015890
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9783030015893
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Intro; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Coleridge and the Addicted Imagination; Modality, Formalism, and Literary Science; Chapter Overview; Terms and Definitions; The Nature of Addiction and of the Addiction-like; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Shelley, Alcohol, and the "world we make": Habit's Patterns in The Cenci; Terminology; Places Patterned by Habit and Exploratory Poetry; From Enlightenment Custom to Shelley's Conflicting Kinds of Recurrence; Count Cenci's Gothic Realm; The Possibility of a Better Place; Bibliography.
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Chapter 3: The Labyrinths of De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-EaterDe Quincey's Aesthetic Habits; The Possibilities of Habits; The Addict's Labyrinth; Bibliography; Chapter 4: From Lotos-Eaters to Lotus-Eaters: Tennyson's And Rossetti's Mediated Addiction; Tennyson, Addiction, and Lucretius; Lotos-Eaters; The Mediation of Romantic Precedent; From "Lotos-Eaters" to "Lotus-Eaters"; Goblin Market's Addiction-Like Thinking; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Bleak House's Addictive Detective-Work; Conflicting Habits in a Habit-Formed World.
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Macnish and the Literary-Scientific Associations with AddictionBleak House's Habitual Seekers; Skimpole's Addictive World-Making; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Optative Movement and Drink in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; Stevenson's Cinema; Keats's Intoxicating Indolence; Stevenson's Keatsian Addiction; The Addict's Rambles; Material Immateriality; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Epilogue: Generic Variety in Marie Corelli's Wormwood and Beyond; The Addiction Aesthetic in the Twenty-First Century; Bibliography; Index.
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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.
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Aesthetics.
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Drug abuse in literature.
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Drug addiction in literature.
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English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Aesthetics.
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Drug abuse in literature.
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Drug addiction in literature.
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English literature.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.93556
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PR468.D78C65 2019
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