Cocaine, literature, and culture, 1876-1930

• Verfasst von: Small, Douglas R. J. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Cocaine, literature, and culture, 1876-1930
• Verf.angabe: Douglas R.J. Small
• Verlagsort: London ; New York ; Oxford
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: 249 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Critical interventions in the medical and health humanities
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-350-40009-2
• ISBN: 978-1-350-40013-9
• Schlagwörter: (s)Englisch / (s)Literatur / (s)Kultur / (s)Cocain <Motiv> / (z)Geschichte 1876-1930
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Small, Douglas R. J: Cocaine, literature, and culture, 1876-1930. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024
• K10plus-PPN: 1858928729

Abstract

"The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, this open access book offers an important exploration of the drug's symbolic and metaphorical associations in the decades prior to its criminalization. Reading texts such as the Sherlock Holmes stories, by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as work by Arthur Machen, W.C Morrow and Aleister Crowley, it examines the paradoxical position of cocaine in this period"--