George Eliot and Intoxication: Dangerous Drugs for the Condition of England

by Kathleen McCormack

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0333734920

ISBN13:9780333734926

Release Date:November 1999

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:234 Pages

Weight:1.03 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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