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

Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 304 pages) 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-siecle Britain; "Afflictions a 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 Analysis "Multi-User" Notes OldControl:muse9781613761809 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Drug abuse -- History Addicts -- History Alcoholism in literature. Drug abuse in literature. Addicts in literature. English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Addicts Addicts in literature Alcoholism in literature American literature Drug abuse Drug abuse in literature English literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2008031442 ISBN 9781613761809 1613761805 1558496807 9781558496804

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