Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Adam Colman is a Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Shelley, Alcohol, and the "world we make": Habit's Patterns in The Cenci.- 3. The Labyrinths of De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.- 3. From Lotos-Eaters to Lotus-Eaters: Tennyson's and Rossetti's Mediated Addiction.- 5. Bleak House's Addictive Detective-Work.- 6. Optative Movement and Drink in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.- 7. Epilogue: Generic Variety in Marie Corelli's Wormwood and Beyond.