Addiction in the Victorian Years (original) (raw)

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• Introduction
• Victorian Drug Use
• Victorian Terms used to Describe Addiction
• The Role of Habit in Addiction
• Opium & Infant Mortality
• The Medicinal Use of Opium in England
• Temperance and Teetotalism
• The Medical "Discovery" of Addiction
• Conclusion: Acts and Identities

Addiction, the Arts, and Literature

• George Cruikshank’s The Bottle, a 7-part Hogarthian series on the evils of drink
• Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood and the Chinese Opium Wars
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"
• Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821; text)
• Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone
• Representations of Drugs in Nineteenth-Century Literature

The Social and Political Contexts of Addiction

• England and China: The Opium Wars, 1839-60
• The Consumption of Opium in China
• The Principle of Extraterritoriality and the Opium Wars, 1839-60
• Commissioner Lin Ze-xu's Letter to Queen Victoria

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Last modified 9 December 2022