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Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930

Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930

Small, Douglas Rj

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Series: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1350400130
ISBN13: 9781350400139
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jul 24 2025
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this open access book offers an important exploration of the drug's symbolic and metaphorical associations in the decades prior to its criminalization.

Examining the paradoxical position of cocaine in this period by looking at its role as an icon of technology, modernity and idealised medical identity, alongside developing notions of habituation and dependence, this book reads texts such as the Sherlock Holmes stories, by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as work by Arthur Machen, W.C Morrow and Aleister Crowley.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust.

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