Reconsidering Drugs
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Reconsidering Drugs

Mapping Victorian and Modern Drug Discourses

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Reconsidering Drugs

Mapping Victorian and Modern Drug Discourses

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Lawrence Driscoll's fresh examination of the meaning of drugs from the Victorians to the present asks us to listen to historical and current voices whose positions on drugs are at variance with our "truths." Driscoll draws on the work of figures as diverse as William Burroughs, Sigmund Freud, Conan Doyle, and Anna Kavan to shed light on different or silenced ways of talking about drugs and to offer us a historical counter-memory. The result of his work is to unsettle and disturb the familiar parameters that frame our discussion of drugs, revealing that others are available: positions which expose our own constructions as surprisingly limited.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
ISBN
9781349622399

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1 “Unpopular Everywhere,” or Forgetting the Self, Remembering Drugs
  10. Chapter 2 “A Creature Without Species”: Constructing Drug Users
  11. Chapter 3 “Pleasures Impossible to Interpret”: Freud and Cocaine
  12. Chapter 4 “The Doctor Does a Good Job”: William Burroughs’s Critique of Control
  13. Chapter 5 Planet Heroin: Women and Drugs
  14. Chapter 6 Up from Drug Slavery?: Drugs and Race in Contemporary America
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index