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100 1 $aMilligan, Barry.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94094182
245 10 $aPleasures and pains :$bopium and the Orient in nineteenth-century British culture /$cBarry Milligan.
260 $aCharlottesville :$bUniversity Press of Virginia,$c1995.
300 $axii, 156 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aVictorian literature and culture series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [143]-151) and index.
505 0 $aI. Opium, the Orient, Imperialism, and National Identity -- II. Pernicious Beverages: Coleridge, Opium, and Oriental Contamination -- III. "The Causes of My Horror Lie Deep": De Quincey, Opium, and the Excavated Oriental Origins of British Identity -- IV. "Accepting a Matter of Opium as a Matter of Fact": The Moonstone, Opium, and Hybrid Anglo-Indian Culture -- V. "The Plague Spreading and Attacking Our Vitals": The Victorian Opium Den and Oriental Contagion -- VI. "It Begins with the Chinese, but Does Not End with Them": Opium Smoking and the Orientalized Domestic Scene in England.
520 $aThroughout the nineteenth century, while Britons were taking their culture to the East, they were also bringing back exotic commodities and ideas, inviting the Orient to enter English terrain, bodies, and consciousness. This mixing is both mediated and mirrored by opium, an Oriental commodity that enters and alters the English body and mindset, thus confusing the direction of Anglo-Oriental power dynamics.
520 8 $aIncorporating elements of literary criticism, cultural studies, and social history, Pleasures and Pains takes a new look at the complicated dynamics of empire as well as the development of still-prevalent perceptions of drugs as alien invaders responsible for the decay of national character.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102754
650 0 $aDrug addicts' writings$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aOpium abuse$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xCivilization$xAsian influences.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xCivilization$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056625
650 0 $aAuthors, English$y19th century$xDrug use.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$xAsian influences.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012196
650 0 $aOpium abuse in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94007483
650 0 $aExoticism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046401
651 0 $aOrient$xIn literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108715
830 0 $aVictorian literature and culture series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88542788
852 00 $bglx$hPR468.O6$iM55 1995
852 00 $bbar$hPR468.O6$iM55 1995