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

Publication Info.	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2008]
	©2008

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Description	xi, 304 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-293) and index.
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.
Subject	American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	American literature.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	English literature.
	Addicts in literature.
	Addicts in literature.
	Drug abuse in literature.
	Drug abuse in literature.
	Alcoholism in literature.
	Alcoholism in literature.
	Addicts -- History.
	Addicts.
	History.
	Drug abuse -- History.
	Drug abuse.
ISBN	9781558496804 paperback alkaline paper
	1558496807 paperback alkaline paper
	9781558496798 library cloth alkaline paper
	1558496793 library cloth alkaline paper