ISBN:
9780520935709
,
0520935705
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (ix, 232 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version High anxieties
DDC:
394.14
Keywords:
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
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Customs & Traditions
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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
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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