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"Throughout George Eliot's fiction, not only do a remarkable number of her characters act under the influence of unwise consumption of alcohol and opium, but these drugs also recur often as metaphors and allusions.".
"George Eliot's constructions of drug-consuming characters (especially parental characters), analyzed in a context freshly drawn from a variety of Warwickshire local histories, demonstrate how intricately she connects medical, aesthetic, political, cultural, and gender issues of her period through references to intoxication.
Kathleen McCormack also describes George Eliot's forward-thinking theory of addiction and concludes with a radical biographical speculation concerning Christiana Pearson Evans, the novelist's shadowy mother."--BOOK JACKET.
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Alcoholics, Alcoholics in literature, Alcoholism in literature, Characters, Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature, Drug addiction in literature, English Didactic fiction, History, History and criticism, Literature and society, Narcotic addicts, Political and social views, Social problems in literature, Characters and characteristics in literature, Eliot, george, 1819-1880, Great britain, history, 19th century, Drug addiction, Alcoholism, Didactic fiction, history and criticismPeople
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George Eliot and Intoxication: Dangerous Drugs for the Condition of England
February 5, 2000, Palgrave Macmillan
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George Eliot and intoxication: dangerous drugs for the condition of England
2000, Macmillan Press, St. Martin's Press
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1999, St. Martin's Press
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George Eliot and Intoxication: Dangerous Drugs for the Condition of England
1999, Macmillan Press
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