High anxieties : cultural studies in addiction /
High Anxieties explores the history and ideological ramifications of the modern concept of addiction. Little more than a century old, the notions of "addict" as an identity and "addiction" as a disease of the will form part of the story of modernity.
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| Språk: | engelska |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2002.
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| Länkar: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppvsf |
Innehållsförteckning:
- Addiction and the ends of desire / Stacey Margolis
- A terminal case: William Burroughs and the logic of addiction / Timothy Melley
- Narrating national addictions: De Quincey, opium, and tea / Cannon Schmitt
- Victorian highs: detection, drugs, and empire / Marty Roth
- The rhetoric of addiction: from Victorian novels to AA / Robyn R. Warhol
- Firewater legacy: alcohol and Native American identity in the fiction of James Fenimore Cooper / Nicholas O. Warner
- Smoking, addiction, and the making of time / Helen Keane
- An intoxicated screen: reflections on film and drugs / Maurizio Viano
- Welcome to the pharmacy: addiction, transcendence, and virtual reality / Ann Weinstone
- If "reality is the best metaphor," it must be virtual / Marguerite Waller.