High Anxieties
Subtitle: Cultural Studies in Addiction
Contributors: Janet Farrell Brodie (Editor); Marc Redfield (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 4, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780520227514
Subjects: Cultural studies; Drug addiction & substance abuse; Psychopathology - Addiction; Drugs and motion pictures; Social Science; Substance abuse; Sociology; Popular Culture - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Drugs and literature; General; Alcoholism in literature; Social aspects
First sentence: The striking thing about Miss Penelosa, the mesmerist in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Parasite" (1894), is not that she can make her subjects perform certain actions, but that she can make them, against their will,experience certain desires.