- Gebundene Ausgabe: 360 Seiten
- Verlag: Harvard University Press; Auflage: illustrated edition (3. Dezember 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0674009142
- ISBN-13: 978-0674009141
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 24,2 x 16,4 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.054.107 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Instead of providing a chronological history of drugs in literature, Boon (English, York Univ.) offers a sprawling, extensively researched work that explores the "more subtle, micropolitical histories of everyday interactions between human beings and particular psychoactive substances." Each of the book's five chapters focuses on writers (e.g., Baudelaire, Burroughs, Coleridge, Freud, Huxley, Kerouac, and Southey) and works associated with a particular class of drugs: narcotics, anesthetics, cannabis, stimulants, and psychedelics. Boon originally intended to confine himself to writers from the Romantics to the present but expanded his scope when after questioning the apparent lack of drug literature prior to Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1822). This is an ambitious effort, but as Boon himself notes in his chapter on cannabis, readers "will notice a tendency in my writing toward digression." A tighter focus would have helped, especially since many of the anecdotes have been covered elsewhere-most recently in Sadie Plant's Writing on Drugs. Still, this is a solid work of scholarship that should be of interest to most academic libraries.
William D. Walsh, White Pines Coll., Chester, NH
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
William D. Walsh, White Pines Coll., Chester, NH
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Boon's new work reads... like a wide-eyed, joyous romp through a literary stateman's funhouse, where each room contains a masterfully told tale of opium or morphine, peyote or LSD, coffee or cocaine. We see a gallery of our most prized literary lions, many of them stripped bare of their pristine reputations. It is a mind-teasing exercise that is well worth the trip." - Rebecca Shannonhouse, Boston Globe; "Boon has written the most useful and engaging history of psychoactive lit yet. His prose is generous, unburried, and far too tasteful to gob up the page with theory. At the same time, he casts his net deep and wide, drawing in folks as disparate as Chaucer, Kant, and Iceberg Slim. Boon is not content to merely record the encounter between modern writers and drugs, he deepens the story as well, and, amazingly, he does it without exploiting the rhetoric of personal experience or subversive hip." - Erik Davis, Bookforum"
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The First Truly Entertaining Book on Literary Criticism
29. April 2003
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Where did this guy Marcus Boon find the time to research all these facts? Amazing collection of the serious and the hysterical. He has definitely studied his area thoroughly. A perfect addition to the political/social/cultural issues of the times. Highly recommended to anyone interested in the involvement of drugs with creativity. Good read. You will definitely have a new must-read list after you're done with this book.
I'd buy another book by the same author.
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