Inventing the addict : drugs, race, and sexuality in nineteenth-century British and American literature / Susan Zieger.

• Part I. Travel, exile, and self-enslavement. Pioneers of inner space: drug autobiography and manifest destiny; "Mankind has been drunk": race and addiction in Uncle Tom's cabin; Impostors of freedom: hypodermic morphine and the labors of passing in E.P. Roe's Without a home -- Part II. Disease, desire, and defect. Needling desires: women, morphinomania, and self-representation in fin-de-siècle Britain; "Afflictions à la Oscar Wilde": the strange case of addiction and sexuality in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Un-death and bare life: addiction and eugenics in Dracula and The blood of the vampire.

Ämnesord

American literature  -- 19th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

English literature  -- 19th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Addicts in literature.  (LCSH)

Drug abuse in literature.  (LCSH)

Alcoholism in literature.  (LCSH)

Addicts  -- History. (LCSH)

Drug abuse  -- History. (LCSH)

Klassifikation

PS217.A32 (LCC)

820.9/3561 (DDC)

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