High anxieties : cultural studies in addiction /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Brodie, Janet Farrell, Redfield, Marc, 1958-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]
Subjects:	Substance abuse > Social aspects. Drugs and literature. Drugs and motion pictures. Alcoholism in literature. Alcoholism in motion pictures. Virtual reality > Social aspects. Polytoxicomanie > Aspect social. Drogues et littérature. Drogues et cinéma. Alcoolisme dans la littérature. Alcoolisme au cinéma. Réalité virtuelle > Aspect social. Electronic books.
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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.