The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on DrugsHarvard University Press, 1. des. 2002 - 360 sider From the antiquity of Homer to yesterday's Naked Lunch, writers have found inspiration, and readers have lost themselves, in a world of the imagination tinged and oftentimes transformed by drugs. The age-old association of literature and drugs receives its first comprehensive treatment in this far-reaching work. Drawing on history, science, biography, literary analysis, and ethnography, Marcus Boon shows that the concept of drugs is fundamentally interdisciplinary, and reveals how different sets of connections between disciplines configure each drug's unique history. |
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... opium , he took opium on a daily basis from 1812 to his death . During certain periods ( 1813-1815 , 1817 , 1828 , 1844 ) , his dosage rose as high as 12,000 drops of laudanum a day with accompanying derangement of his sleep and waking ...
... opium was Albert de Pouvoirville , a si- nologist of some repute , who published a series of books about opium.135 He had participated in the pacification of Tonkin as a cavalry officer and claimed that his pseudonym Matgioi ( “ the ...
... opium with sailors there.176 In the 1920s , he underwent two cures after extensive periods of opium use , which were apparently connected to the death of his lover , Ray- mond Radiguet , and his growing friendship with the sinologist ...
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The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs Marcus Boon Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2005 |
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