| George Eliot and Intoxication: Dangerous Drugs for the Condition of England 2000 Edition Contributor(s): McCormack, K. (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0333734920 ISBN-13: 9780333734926 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 823 |
| Series: Dangerous Drugs for the Condition of England |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.03 lbs) 234 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Throughout George Eliot's fiction, not only do a remarkable number of her characters act under the influence of unwise consumption of alcohol and opium, but drugs also recur often as metaphors and allusions. Together, they create an extensive pattern of drug/disease references that represent socio-political problems as diseases in a social body and solutions to those problems (especially solutions that depend on some kind of written language) as volatile remedies that retain the potential to either kill or cure. |