Psychopharmacology in British Literature and Culture, 1780–1900

Chapter 1 Situating Psychopharmacology in Literature and Culture

Chapter 2 Historicising Keats’ Opium Imagery Through Neoclassical Medical and Literary Discourses

Chapter 3 “Grief’s Comforter, Joy’s Guardian, Good King Poppy!”: Opium and Victorian Poetry

Chapter 4 Dangerous Literary Substances: Discourses of Drugs and Dependence in the Nineteenth-Century Sensation Novel Debates

Chapter 5 Blurring Plant and Human Boundaries: Erasmus Darwin’s The Loves of the Plants

Chapter 6 Pharmacokinetics and Opium-Eating: Metabolites, Stomach Aches and the Afterlife of De Quincey’s Addiction

Chapter 7 A Posthumanist Approach to Agency in De Quincey’s Confessions

Chapter 8 Reading De Quinceyan Rhetoric Against the Grain: An Actor-Network-Theory Approach

Chapter 9 Blood Streams, Cash Flows and Circulations of Desire: Psychopharmacological Knowledge About Opium in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Fiction

Chapter 10 The Indeterminate Pharmacology of Absinthe in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Beyond

Chapter 11 “She Furnishes the Fan and the Lavender Water”: Nervous Distress, Female Healers and Jane Austen’s Herbal Medicine

Chapter 12 “When Poor Mama Long Restless Lies, / She Drinks the Poppy’s Juice”: Opium and Gender in British Romantic Literature

Chapter 13 Middlemarch and Medical Practice in the Regency Era: From “Bottles of Stuff” to the Clinical Gaze