Psychopharmacology in British literature and culture, 1780-1900

著者

• Roxburgh, Natalie
• Henke, Jennifer S.

書誌事項

Psychopharmacology in British literature and culture, 1780-1900

Natalie Roxburgh, Jennifer S. Henke, editors

Palgrave Macmillan , [Amazon], c2020

• : pbk

タイトル別名

Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine

注記

Reprint. Originally published: Palgrave Macmillan, c2020 (Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine)

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明・目次

内容説明

This collection of essays examines the way psychoactive substances are described and discussed within late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literary and cultural texts. Covering several genres, such as novels, poetry, autobiography and non-fiction, individual essays provide insights on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century understandings of drug effects of opium, alcohol and many other plant-based substances. Contributors consider both contemporary and recent medical knowledge in order to contextualise and illuminate understandings of how drugs were utilised as stimulants, as relaxants, for pleasure, as pain relievers and for other purposes. Chapters also examine the novelty of experimentations of drugs in conversation with the way literary texts incorporate them, highlighting the importance of literary and cultural texts for addressing ethical questions.

目次

1. Situating Psychopharmacology in Literature and Culture Natalie Roxburgh, Jennifer S. Henke I. Drugs and Genre 2. Historicising Keats' Opium Imagery through Neoclassical Medical and Literary Discourses Octavia Cox 3. "Grief's comforter, Joy's guardian, good King Poppy!": Opium and Victorian Poetry Irmtraud Huber 4. Dangerous Literary Substances: Discourses of Drugs and Dependence in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Novel Debates Sarah Fruhwirth II. Rethinking the Pharmacological Body: Drugs and the Borders of the Human 5. Blurring Plant and Human Boundaries: Erasmus Darwin's The Loves of the Plants C. A. Vaughn Cross 6. Pharmacokinetics and Opium-Eating: Metabolites, Stomach Aches and the Afterlife of De Quincey's Addiction Hannah Markley 7. A Posthumanist Approach to Agency in De Quincey's Confessions Anna Rowntree III. The Cultural Politics of Known Drug Effects 8. Reading De Quinceyan Rhetoric Against the Grain: An Actor-Network-Theory Approach Anuj Gupta 9. Blood Streams, Cash Flows and Circulations of Desire: Psychopharmacological Knowledge About Opium in Nineteenth-Century Women's Fiction Nadine Boehm-Schnitker 10. The Indeterminate Pharmacology of Absinthe in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Beyond Vanessa Herrmann IV. Historicizing the Prescription: Medication and Self-Medication 11. "She furnishes the fan and the lavender water": Nervous Distress, Female Healers and Jane Austen's Herbal Medicine Rebecca Spear 12. "When poor mama long restless lies, / She drinks the poppy's juice": Opium and Gender in British Romantic Literature Joseph Crawford 13. Middlemarch and Medical Practice in the Regency Era: From "Bottles of Stuff" to the Clinical Gaze Bjoern Bosserhoff

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BC12115981
• ISBN:
  • 9783030536008
• 出版国コード: sz
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: [Cham],[Japan]
• ページ数/冊数: xiv, 302 p.
• 大きさ: 21 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 820.9356109034
• 件名:
  • LCSH : British literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Psychopharmacology in literature