George Eliot and Intoxication: Dangerous Drugs for the Condition of England

McCormack, K.

Throughout George Eliot's fiction, not only do a remarkable number of her characters act under the influence of unwise consumption of alcohol and opium, but drugs also recur often as metaphors and allusions. Together, they create an extensive pattern of drug/disease references that represent socio-political problems as diseases in a social body and solutions to those problems (especially solutions that depend on some kind of written language) as volatile remedies that retain the potential to either kill or cure.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1999-11-22

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333734926

DOI: 10.1057/9780230596115

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 234