MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01687cam a22003014a 4500
001 2008031442
003 DLC
005 20090423150028.0
008 080717s2008 mau b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2008031442
020 $a9781558496804 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a9781558496798 (library cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aPS217.A32$bZ54 2008
082 00 $a820.9/3561$222
100 1 $aZieger, Susan Marjorie.
245 10 $aInventing the addict :$bdrugs, race, and sexuality in nineteenth-century British and American literature /$cSusan Zieger.
260 $aAmherst :$bUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$c2008.
300 $axi, 304 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPart 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.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAddicts in literature.
650 0 $aDrug abuse in literature.
650 0 $aAlcoholism in literature.
650 0 $aAddicts$xHistory.
650 0 $aDrug abuse$xHistory.