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High anxieties : cultural studies in addiction / Janet Farrell Brodie and Marc Redfield, editors

Brodie, Janet Farrell ; Redfield, Marc, 1958-

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002

Online Ressource (ix, 232 p.)

Englisch

Addiction and the ends of desire / Stacey MargolisA 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record

Print version: High anxieties

978-0-520-93570-9 ( : electronic bk.); 0-520-93570-5 (electronic bk.)

0-520-22750-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-520-22751-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-282-35945-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-520-22750-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-520-22751-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-282-35945-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 55529903     

OCoLC: 55529903 (aus SWB)     

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bisacsh: SOC005000 ; bicssc: GTS,JBNP2 ; bisacsh: SOC026000 ; bisacsh: SOC 005000

LOC-SH: Substance abuse -- Social aspects ; Virtual reality -- Social aspects ; Polytoxicomanie -- Aspect social ; Drogues et littérature ; Drogues et cinéma ; Alcoolisme dans la littérature ; Alcoolisme au cinéma ; Réalité virtuelle -- Aspect social ; Drugs and literature ; Drugs and motion pictures ; Alcoholism in literature ; Alcoholism in motion pictures ; Substance abuse -- Social aspects ; Virtual reality -- Social aspects ; Virtual reality -- Social aspects ; Alcoholism in literature ; Drugs and literature ; Alcoholism in motion pictures ; Drugs and motion pictures ; Substance abuse -- Social aspects ; Electronic books

Electronic books ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Customs & Traditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General ; Alcoholism in literature ; Alcoholism in motion pictures ; Drugs and literature ; Drugs and motion pictures ; Substance abuse ; Social aspects ; Virtual reality ; Social aspects ; Alcoolisme ; Aspect social ; Cinéma ; Drogue ; Polytoxicomanie ; Réalité virtuelle ; Toxicomanie ; Thème littéraire ; Thème ; Cultural studies ; Illness & addiction: social aspects ; Popular culture ; Food and Drink

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.

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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