| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 232 pages) |
| Contents |
Addiction and the ends of desire / Stacey Margolis -- A terminal case: William Burroughs and the logic of addiction / Timothy Melley -- Narrating national addictions: De Quincey, opium, and tea / Cannon Schmitt -- Victorian highs: detection, drugs, and empire / Marty Roth -- The rhetoric of addiction: from Victorian novels to AA / Robyn R. Warhol -- Firewater legacy: alcohol and Native American identity in the fiction of James Fenimore Cooper / Nicholas O. Warner -- Smoking, addiction, and the making of time / Helen Keane -- An intoxicated screen: reflections on film and drugs / Maurizio Viano -- Welcome to the pharmacy: addiction, transcendence, and virtual reality / Ann Weinstone -- If "reality is the best metaphor," it must be virtual / Marguerite Waller |
| Summary |
High Anxieties explores the history and ideological ramifications of the modern concept of addiction. Little more than a century old, the notions of "addict" as an identity and "addiction" as a disease of the will form part of the story of modernity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Substance abuse -- Social aspects
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Drugs and literature.
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Drugs and motion pictures.
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Alcoholism in literature.
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Alcoholism in motion pictures.
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Virtual reality -- Social aspects
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Alcoholism in literature
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Alcoholism in motion pictures
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Drugs and literature
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Drugs and motion pictures
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Substance abuse -- Social aspects
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Virtual reality -- Social aspects
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Alcoolisme.
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Aspect social.
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Cinéma.
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Drogue.
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Polytoxicomanie.
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Réalité virtuelle.
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Toxicomanie.
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Thème littéraire.
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Thème.
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Cultural studies.
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Illness & addiction: social aspects.
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Popular culture.
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Food and Drink.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brodie, Janet Farrell
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Redfield, Marc, 1958-
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| LC no. |
2002002289 |
| ISBN |
9780520935709 |
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0520935705 |
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1597346543 |
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9781597346542 |
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