An edition of Inventing the addict (2008)

Inventing the addict

drugs, race, and sexuality in nineteenth-century British and American literature

by

Cover of: Inventing the addict by Susan Marjorie Zieger, Susan Marjorie Zieger
Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today
Notes
Notes

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Last edited by MARC Bot
November 29, 2023 | History
Edit
An edition of Inventing the addict (2008)

Inventing the addict

drugs, race, and sexuality in nineteenth-century British and American literature

by

This edition doesn't have a description yet. Can you add one?

Publish Date
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Language
English
Pages
320

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Subjects

History and criticism, History, English literature, Alcoholism in literature, Addicts in literature, Drug abuse, American literature, Addicts, Drug abuse in literature, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century

Times

19th century
Edition Availability
Cover of: Inventing the addict
Inventing the addict: drugs, race, and sexuality in nineteenth-century British and American literature
2008, University of Massachusetts Press
in English

Add another edition?

Book Details

Table of 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-siecle Britain; "Afflictions a 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Amherst

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
820.9/3561
Library of Congress
PS217.A32 Z54 2008, PS217.A32Z54 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
320

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17008359M
ISBN 13
9781558496804, 9781558496798
LCCN
2008031442
OCLC/WorldCat
229308937
Library Thing
7557689
Goodreads
6145677

Source records

Library of Congress MARC record
Library of Congress MARC record
Library of Congress MARC record
Library of Congress MARC record
Better World Books record
Better World Books record
marc_columbia MARC record
amazon.com record
harvard_bibliographic_metadata record

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
November 29, 2023 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
March 16, 2023 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
December 28, 2022 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
September 17, 2021 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
September 27, 2008 Created by ImportBot Imported from Library of Congress MARC record