Inventing the addict: drugs, race, and sexuality in nineteenth-century british and american literature
Auteur :
Zieger, Susan Marjorie
Éditeur :
University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN :
9781558496804
Date de publication :
5 nov. 2008
Dimensions :
22,6 x 14,9 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
442 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Tells the story of how the addict, a person uniquely torn between disease and desire, emerged from a variety of figures such as drunkards, opium-eating scholars, vicious slave masters, dissipated New Women, and queer doctors. This book traces the evolution of the concept of addiction through a series of recurrent metaphors.