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High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction
Janet Farrell Brodie (Ed.)
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Description for High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction
Paperback. A collection of essays that explore the history and ideological ramifications of the modern concept of addiction. Editor(s): Brodie, Janet Farrell; Redfield, Marc. Num Pages: 244 pages, 1 b/w photograph, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
High Anxieties explores the history and ideological ramifications of the modern concept of addiction. Little more than a century old, the notions of "addict" as an identity and "addiction" as a disease of the will form part of the story of modernity. What is addiction? This collection of essays illuminates and refashions the term, delivering a complex and mature understanding of addiction. Brodie and Redfield's introduction provides a roadmap for readers and situates the fascinating essays within a larger, interdisciplinary framework. Stacey Margolis and Timothy Melley's pieces grapple with the psychology of addiction. Cannon Schmitt and Marty Roth delve ... Read more
High Anxieties explores the history and ideological ramifications of the modern concept of addiction. Little more than a century old, the notions of "addict" as an identity and "addiction" as a disease of the will form part of the story of modernity. What is addiction? This collection of essays illuminates and refashions the term, delivering a complex and mature understanding of addiction. Brodie and Redfield's introduction provides a roadmap for readers and situates the fascinating essays within a larger, interdisciplinary framework. Stacey Margolis and Timothy Melley's pieces grapple with the psychology of addiction. Cannon Schmitt and Marty Roth delve ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520227514
SKU
V9780520227514
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About Janet Farrell Brodie (Ed.)
Janet Farrell Brodie is Department Chair of History at Claremont Graduate University and author of Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America (1994). Marc Redfield is Department Chair and Professor of English at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism (2002) and Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman (1996).
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