Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930

AvDouglas RJ. Small,Stuart Murray

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this open access book offers an important exploration of the drug's symbolic and metaphorical associations in the decades prior to its criminalization. Examining the paradoxical position of cocaine in this period by looking at its role as an icon of technology, modernity and idealised medical identity, alongside developing notions of habituation and dependence, this book reads texts such as the Sherlock Holmes stories, by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as work by Arthur Machen, W.C Morrow and Aleister Crowley.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-01-25
Mått:152 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350400092

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Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

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Douglas Small is a Lecturer in Nineteenth Century Literature at Edge Hill University, UK.

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Innehållsförteckning

Introduction 1. Coca Leaves, Edward Weston, and the Victorian Origins of Sports Doping 2. Conquerors of Pain: Cocaine Anaesthesia and the Ideal Medical Man 3. Brutal Fashions: Cosmetic Surgery and Tattooing at the Fin-de-Siècle 4. Cocaine Bugs and the Horrors of Addiction 5. Sherlock Holmes and Cocaine in Canon and Comedy: Profession, Pleasure, and the Zany 6. White Powder, White Fears: Race, Sex, and Masculinity in the Jazz Age Conclusion Bibliography