George Eliot and Intoxication: Dangerous Drugs for the Condition of England by Kathleen McCormack - 9780312227111 - Compare Discount Book Prices & Save up to 90%

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 these drugs also recur often as metaphors and allusions. Together, they create an extensive pattern of drug/disease references that represent sociopolitical 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.

		George Eliot and Intoxication: Dangerous Drugs for the Condition of England by Kathleen McCormack ISBN-10: 9780312227111 ISBN-10: 0-312-22711-6 ISBN-13: 9780312227111 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-22711-1 Hardcover 2000-02-05 Palgrave Macmillan Find Lowest Price
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Product Description 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 these drugs also recur often as metaphors and allusions. Together, they create an extensive pattern of drug/disease references that represent sociopolitical 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.
Book Description 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 these drugs also recur often as metaphors and allusions. Together, they create an extensive pattern of drug/disease references that represent sociopolitical 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.