Pleasures and pains : opium and the Orient in nineteenth-century British culture / Barry Milligan.
Pleasures and pains : opium and the Orient in nineteenth-century British culture / Barry Milligan.
Pleasures and pains : opium and the Orient in nineteenth-century British culture / Barry Milligan.
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Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1995.
Date
1995.
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N820.99208/1
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English
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xii, 156 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
I. Opium, the Orient, Imperialism, and National Identity -- II. Pernicious Beverages: Coleridge, Opium, and Oriental Contamination -- III. "The Causes of My Horror Lie Deep": De Quincey, Opium, and the Excavated Oriental Origins of British Identity -- IV. "Accepting a Matter of Opium as a Matter of...
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Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1995.
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Virginia
Date Published
1995.
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Summary
Throughout the nineteenth century, while Britons were taking their culture to the East, they were also bringing back exotic commodities and ideas, inviting the Orient to enter English terrain, bodies, and consciousness. This mixing is both mediated and mirrored by opium, an Oriental commodity that enters and alters the English body and mindset, thu...
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Pleasures and pains : opium and the Orient in nineteenth-century British culture / Barry Milligan.
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Victorian literature and culture series.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-151) and index.
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N820.99208/1
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0813915716
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820.99208
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991002557729702626
