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Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930 de Douglas RJ. Small

Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities

Autor Douglas RJ. Small
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 ian 2024
The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late 19th and early 20th 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 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350400092
ISBN-10: 1350400092
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 11 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Explores key issues around the contested nature of medical progress; the Victorian origins of sports doping; the history of anaesthesia and surgery; and the moral and ideological issues raised for medicine and medical practitioners by the use of cocaine as a local anaesthetic

Notă biografică

Douglas Small is a Lecturer in Nineteenth Century Literature at Edge Hill University, UK.

Cuprins

Introduction 1. Coca Leaves, Edward Weston, and the Victorian Origins of Sports Doping 2. Conquerors of Pain: Cocaine Anaesthesia and the Ideal Medical Man 3. Brutal Fashions: Cosmetic Surgery and Tattooing at the Fin-de-Siècle 4. Cocaine Bugs and the Horrors of Addiction 5. Sherlock Holmes and Cocaine in Canon and Comedy: Profession, Pleasure, and the Zany 6. White Powder, White Fears: Race, Sex, and Masculinity in the Jazz Age Conclusion Bibliography

Recenzii

Cocaine, Literature, and Culture presents a vital body of research and recovers lost and overlooked implications of the arrival of cocaine as both substance and metaphor. Drug history is suffused with ideological snares and retrospective impositions. Small's approach is not simply corrective but rather helps us to grasp the powerful effect of this singular substance on the Victorian cultural imagination.