316 p. 24 cm. I figure and I table. Black cloth in pictorial dustjacket. Articles by numerous authors on such topics as: Crime and Punishment; Theodore Roethke's poetry; addiction in Goldsmith's satires; opium smoking and the romantic imagination; Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano; six plays of Tennessee Williams; James Joyce and drunken Catholics; Faulkner's 'Controlled' Drinking; patterns of obsession in the work of Marguerite Duras; Sinclair Lewis; Kerouac, alcohol and the Beat Movement; addiction in the work of Patrick Hamilton; heroin addiction and narrative in Alexander Trocchi's Cain's Book; William Golding's The Paper Men; 19th century American female authorship and the discourses of drink. Index.

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Title

Beyond The Pleasure Dome: Writing and Addiction from the Romantics

Publisher

Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield

Publication Date

1994

ISBN 10

1850753784

ISBN 13

9781850753780

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near fine

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This volume of essays addresses a fascinating topic in literary and cultural studies - the relation of literature and addiction. Thirty-one contributors, from Europe, Israel and North America, treat the nature of addiction and its connections with fictionalizing and writing. The excessive appetities inspected here range from alcohol, drugs and food to love, sex and gambling. The concept of addiction is also analysed from the perspectives of law, cinema, gender, medicine and religion. Among the authors whose life and works are discussed here include those whose addictions are legendary (Malcolm Lowry, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas De Quincey, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac) and those who may not immediately be recognized as addicts (Marguerite Duras, Oliver Goldsmith, James Joyce, William Golding, Steven Spielberg).

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