High anxieties
Subtitle: cultural studies in addiction
By: Janet Farrell Brodie and Marc Redfield, editors.
Contributors: Brodie, Janet Farrell.; Redfield, Marc, 1958-
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Substance abuse -- Social aspects; Drugs and literature; Drugs and motion pictures; Alcoholism in literature; Alcoholism in motion pictures; Virtual reality -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Addiction and the ends of desire / Stacey Margolis; title: A terminal case: William Burroughs and the logic of addiction / Timothy Melley; title: Narrating national addictions: De Quincey, opium, and tea / Cannon Schmitt; title: Victorian highs: detection, drugs, and empire / Marty Roth; title: The rhetoric of addiction: from Victorian novels to AA / Robyn R. Warhol; title: Firewater legacy: alcohol and Native American identity in the fiction of James Fenimore Cooper / Nicholas O. Warner; title: Smoking, addiction, and the making of time / Helen Keane; title: An intoxicated screen: reflections on film and drugs / Maurizio Viano; title: Welcome to the pharmacy: addiction, transcendence, and virtual reality / Ann Weinstone; title: If "reality is the best metaphor," it must be virtual / Marguerite Waller.