High Anxieties : Cultural Studies in Addiction /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Redfield, Marc, 1958-, Brodie, Janet Farrell
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Food and Drink.
Popular culture.
Illness & addiction: social aspects.
Cultural studies.
Theme.
Theme litteraire.
Toxicomanie.
Realite virtuelle.
Polytoxicomanie.
Drogue.
Cinema.
Aspect social.
Alcoolisme.
Virtual reality > Social aspects.
Substance abuse > Social aspects.
Drugs and motion pictures.
Drugs and literature.
Alcoholism in motion pictures.
Alcoholism in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
Realite virtuelle > Aspect social.
Alcoolisme au cinema.
Alcoolisme dans la litterature.
Drogues et cinema.
Drogues et litterature.
Polytoxicomanie > Aspect social.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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