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Douglas Small is a Lecturer in Nineteenth Century Literature at Edge Hill University, UK.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.
British Association for Victorian Studies Newsletter
<i>Cocaine, Literature, and Culture</i> presents a vital body of research and recovers lost and overlooked implications of the arrival of cocaine as both substance and metaphor. Drug history is suffused with ideological snares and retrospective impositions. Small’s approach is not simply corrective but rather helps us to grasp the powerful effect of this singular substance on the Victorian cultural imagination.
Sean A. Witters, Senior Lecturer, University of Vermont, USA
Douglas R. J. Small’s <i>Cocaine, Literature and Culture, 1876–1930</i>, is a refreshing exploration of cocaine in the public imagination, concentrating on cocaine as it appears in fictional narratives of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries … There is engaging analysis of a range of fictional texts by Conan Doyle, Machen, Morrow, and Crowley. Overall, this is a highly readable and entertaining, text. Small’s writing style is both fluent and entertaining, as he offers new and exciting perspectives on the use of cocaine during the period 1846–1930.
- Jessica Thomas, The British Society for Literature and Science
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.
Introduction
1. Coca Leaves, Edward Weston, and the Victorian Origins of Sports Doping
2. Conquerors of Pain: Cocaine Anaesthesia and the Ideal Medical Man
3. Brutal Fashions: Cosmetic Surgery and Tattooing at the Fin-de-Siècle
4. Cocaine Bugs and the Horrors of Addiction
5. Sherlock Holmes and Cocaine in Canon and Comedy: Profession, Pleasure,
and the Zany
6. White Powder, White Fears: Race, Sex, and Masculinity in the Jazz Age
Conclusion
Bibliography
Critical Interventions in the Medical Humanities promotes a broad range of scholarly work across the Medical and Health Humanities, including both larger-scale intellectual projects and argument-led provocations, to present new field-defining, interdisciplinary research into health and human experience.
Series editorial board:
Josie Gill, Associate Professor in Black British Writing, University of Bristol
Guido Furci, Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Migration Studies, Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle
Nolwazi Mkhwanazi, Professor of Anthropology at the University of the Pretoria
Kirsten Ostherr, Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English and Director, Medical Futures Lab, Rice University
Priscilla Song, Associate Professor of Humanities and Emergency Medicine, Penn State, USA
Samantha Walton, Reader in Modern Literature, Bath Spa University