Psychopharmacology in British Literature and Culture, 1780-1900

Psychopharmacology in British Literature and Culture, 1780-1900

Roxburgh, Natalie; Henke, Jennifer S.

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

10/2021

302

Mole

Inglês

9783030536008

15 a 20 dias

419

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1. Situating Psychopharmacology in Literature and Culture, Natalie Roxburgh, Jennifer S. Henke.- 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 Fruehwirth.- 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.- 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.- 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.
nineteenth-century literature;British literature;drugs and literature;addiction and literature;discourse of addiction;history of science;literature and science