Pleasures and pains : opium and the Orient in nineteenth-century British culture /

Pleasures and pains : opium and the Orient in nineteenth-century British culture / Barry Milligan.

Throughout the nineteenth century, while Britons were taking their culture to the East, they were also bringing back exotic commodities and ideas, inviting the Orient to enter English terrain, bodies, and consciousness. This mixing is both mediated and mirrored by opium, an Oriental commodity that e...

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Main Author: Milligan, Barry.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1995.
Series:Victorian literature and culture series.
Subjects:
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Drug addicts' writings, English > History and criticism.
Opium abuse > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Authors, English > 19th century > Drug use.
English literature > Asian influences.
Opium abuse in literature.
Exoticism in literature.
Great Britain > Civilization > Oriental influences.
Great Britain > Civilization > 19th century.
Orient > In literature.

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Call Number: PR468.O6 M55 1995
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