BEYOND THE PLEASURE DOME. WRITING AND ADDICTION FROM THE ROMANTICS

VICE, S. / M. CAMPBELL / T. ARMSTRONG, EDS.

ISBN 10: 1850753784 / ISBN 13: 9781850753780

Published by SHEFFIELD ACADEMIC PRESS, SHEFFIELD, 1994

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VICE, S. / M. CAMPBELL / T. ARMSTRONG, EDS.: BEYOND THE PLEASURE DOME. WRITING AND ADDICTION FROM THE ROMANTICS. SHEFFIELD, 1994, 316 p. , 620 gr. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo. (NB-8-5) 620 gr.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: BEYOND THE PLEASURE DOME. WRITING AND ADDICTION FROM THE ROMANTICS
• Publisher: SHEFFIELD ACADEMIC PRESS, SHEFFIELD
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1850753784
• ISBN 13: 9781850753780
• Binding: Tapa blanda
• Edition: 1ª edición.
• Condition: New
• Weight: 620 grams
• Book Type: Libro
• Seller catalogs:
  • Critica literaria

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Synopsis

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).