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

Author/creator Zieger, Susan
Format Book
Publication InfoAmherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxi, 304 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
American literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
English literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
Addicts in literature.
Drug abuse in literature.
Alcoholism in literature.
Addicts--History.
Drug abuse--History.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-293) and index.
LCCN 2008031442
ISBN1558496807 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9781558496804 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1558496793 (library cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781558496798 (library cloth : alk. paper)