Reconsidering Drugs: Mapping Victorian and Modern Drug Discourses (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312222727)

Lawrence Driscoll's fresh examination of the meaning of drugs from the Victorians to the present asks us to listen to historical and current voices whose positions on drugs are at variance with our "truths." Driscoll draws on the work of figures as diverse as William Burroughs, Sigmund Freud, Conan Doyle, and Anna Kavan to shed light on different or silenced ways of talking about drugs and to offer us a historical counter-memory. The result of his work is to unsettle and disturb the familiar parameters that frame our discussion of drugs, revealing that others are available: positions which expose our own constructions as surprisingly limited.

Author: Na Na
ISBN-10: 0312222726
ISBN-13: 9780312222727
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2000
Pages: 199
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.76w x 0.89d