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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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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Lawrence Driscoll
    Pages 1-21

  3. “Unpopular Everywhere,” or Forgetting the Self, Remembering Drugs

    • Lawrence Driscoll
    Pages 23-42

  4. “A Creature Without Species”: Constructing Drug Users

    • Lawrence Driscoll
    Pages 43-67

  5. “Pleasures Impossible to Interpret”: Freud and Cocaine

    • Lawrence Driscoll
    Pages 69-85

  6. “The Doctor Does a Good Job”: William Burroughs’s Critique of Control

    • Lawrence Driscoll
    Pages 87-100

  7. Planet Heroin: Women and Drugs

    • Lawrence Driscoll
    Pages 101-127

  8. Up from Drug Slavery?: Drugs and Race in Contemporary America

    • Lawrence Driscoll
    Pages 129-159

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 161-199
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About the author

Lawrence Driscoll is Lecturer in English at Santa Monica College.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reconsidering Drugs

  • Book Subtitle: Mapping Victorian and Modern Drug Discourses

  • Authors: Lawrence Driscoll

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62239-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-22272-7Published: 01 January 2000

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-62239-9Published: 30 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 199

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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