Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century
These decadent cultural images are familiar, but what is the story behind them? * Coleridge and de Quincey swilling bitter draughts of laudanum * Sigmund Freud and Sherlock Holmes dallying with cocaine * Baudelaire and Gautier rapt in velvet hashish fantasies * Queen Victoria swallowing her...
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These decadent cultural images are familiar, but what is the story behind them? * Coleridge and de Quincey swilling bitter draughts of laudanum * Sigmund Freud and Sherlock Holmes dallying with cocaine * Baudelaire and Gautier rapt in velvet hashish fantasies * Queen Victoria swallowing her prescription dose of cannabis How did cannabis and cocaine, opium and ether, mushrooms and mescaline enter the worlds of nineteenth century Britain, Europe and America, and what was their impact on that century'sdreams and nightmares?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781873982488 (1873982488)
Publish date: May 1st 2002
Publisher: Dedalus
Pages no: 277
Edition language: English
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