The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on DrugsHarvard University Press, 1 dic 2002 - 360 páginas 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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... poet and one who played a crucial role in linking the scientific or medical study of opium to the neoclassical po- etic discourse that I identified above - thus making possible the strange hy- brid form that we now know as " drugs ...
... poet and a scientist has suffered considerably . His scientific ideas played a role in Germany in the development of Naturphiloso- phie , but when Romantic science was abandoned , his name was consigned to a footnote appended to the ...
... poet may drink wine and live generously , but the epic poet , he who shall sing of the gods and their descent unto men , must drink wa- ter out of a wooden bowl.31 For Emerson , as well as many others , narcotics offered a false ...
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Prologue I | 1 |
Narcotics and Literature | 17 |
Epilogue | 276 |
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