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The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs
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by Marcus Boon
Sales Rank: 401789
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Cover Type: Paperback with 360 pages
Published by: Harvard University Press; New Ed edition March 15, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0674017560
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0674017566
Book Dimensions:
8.7 x 5.7 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1 pounds
From Library Journal
Instead of providing a chronological history of drugs in literature, Boon (English, York Univ.) offers a sprawling, extensively researched work that explores the "more subtle, micropolitical histories of everyday interactions between human beings and particular psychoactive substances." Each of the book's five chapters focuses on writers (e.g., Baudelaire, Burroughs, Coleridge, Freud, Huxley, Kerouac, and Southey) and works associated with a particular class of drugs: narcotics, anesthetics, cannabis, stimulants, and psychedelics. Boon originally intended to confine himself to writers from the Romantics to the present but expanded his scope when after questioning the apparent lack of drug literature prior to Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1822). This is an ambitious effort, but as Boon himself notes in his chapter on cannabis, readers "will notice a tendency in my writing toward digression." A tighter focus would have helped, especially since many of the anecdotes have been covered elsewhere-most recently in Sadie Plant's Writing on Drugs. Still, this is a solid work of scholarship that should be of interest to most academic libraries.
William D. Walsh, White Pines Coll., Chester, NH
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Simon Ings, New Scientist [UK], December 18, 2002
[A] rare creature, a work of literary criticism that the scientific community can enjoy, contend with, and can draw inspiration.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs (Hardcover)
Where did this guy Marcus Boon find the time to research all these facts? Amazing collection of the serious and the hysterical. He has definitely studied his area thoroughly. A perfect addition to the political/social/cultural issues of the times. Highly recommended to anyone interested in the involvement of drugs with creativity. Good read. You will definitely have a new must-read list after you're done with this book. I'd buy another book by the same author.
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