Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930
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Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930
By (Author) Douglas RJ. Small
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Academic
22nd February 2024
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
History of medicine
809.933561
Physical Properties
Hardback
264
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Description
The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth 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-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust.
Author Bio
Douglas Small is a Lecturer in Nineteenth Century Literature at Edge Hill University, UK.
