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Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930

Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930 - Hardcover

by Douglas Rj Small
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Availability:In StockContributor:Douglas Rj Small, Stuart Murray (Editor), Corinne Saunders (Editor)Series:Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health HumanitiesPublish date:2024-01-25Pages:264
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350400092ISBN-10:1350400092UPC:9781350400092Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, ModernBook Topic:19th Century, 20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.62 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SC5E33927C

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350400092ISBN-10:1350400092UPC:9781350400092Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, ModernBook Topic:19th Century, 20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.62 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SC5E33927C
Douglas Small is a Lecturer in Nineteenth Century Literature at Edge Hill University, UK.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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Douglas Rj Small, Stuart Murray (Editor), Corinne Saunders (Editor)

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Douglas Rj Small

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