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- High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
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. What is addiction? This collection of essays illuminates and refashions the term, delivering a complex and mature understanding of addiction.
Brodie and Redfield's introduction provides a roadmap for readers and situates the fascinating essays within a larger, interdisciplinary framework. Stacey Margolis and Timothy Melley's pieces grapple with the psychology of addiction. Cannon Schmitt and Marty Roth delve into the relationship between opium and the British Empire's campaign to control and stigmatize China. Robyn R. Warhol and Nicholas O. Warner examine accounts of alcohol abuse in texts as disparate as Victorian novels, Alcoholics Anonymous literature, and James Fenimore Cooper's fiction. Helen Keane scrutinizes smoking, and Maurizio Viano turns to the silver screen to trace how the representation of drugs in films has changed over time. Ann Weinstone and Marguerite Waller's essays on addiction and cyberspace cap this impressive anthology.
Brodie and Redfield's introduction provides a roadmap for readers and situates the fascinating essays within a larger, interdisciplinary framework. Stacey Margolis and Timothy Melley's pieces grapple with the psychology of addiction. Cannon Schmitt and Marty Roth delve into the relationship between opium and the British Empire's campaign to control and stigmatize China. Robyn R. Warhol and Nicholas O. Warner examine accounts of alcohol abuse in texts as disparate as Victorian novels, Alcoholics Anonymous literature, and James Fenimore Cooper's fiction. Helen Keane scrutinizes smoking, and Maurizio Viano turns to the silver screen to trace how the representation of drugs in films has changed over time. Ann Weinstone and Marguerite Waller's essays on addiction and cyberspace cap this impressive anthology.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-5
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- pp. vii-9
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. ix-11
- Introduction
- pp. 1-15
- Part I. Constructions of Addiction
- pp. 17-29
- 1. Addiction and the Ends of Desire
- pp. 19-37
- Part II. Figures of the Orient
- pp. 61-73
- 3. Narrating National Addictions
- pp. 63-84
- 4. Victorian Highs
- pp. 85-93
- Part III. Demon Drink
- pp. 95-107
- 5. The Rhetoric of Addiction
- pp. 97-108
- 6. Firewater Legacy
- pp. 109-116
- Part IV. Pleasures, Repressions, Resistances
- pp. 117-129
- 8. An Intoxicated Screen
- pp. 134-158
- Part V. Trauma, Media, Cyberspace
- pp. 159-171
- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
- pp. 225-226
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520935709
Related ISBN(s)
9780520227507
MARC Record
OCLC
55529903
Pages
244
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No