Add to ORKGThis chapter discusses the drug opium in the Romantic period. It covers the use of opium by Romamtic period writters, such as Thomas De Quincey and S. T. Coleridge and the production and consumption of opium in a British and global context. It also discusses the various, often conflicting, medical discourses about the drug and the development of the modern concept of addictio
This essay situates Thomas De Quincey's essay 'On the Opium and the China Question' published in Bla...
Four eminent English authors were addicted to opium. Each author spent a considerable part of his li...
To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilisation defeated by imperialist Britain's...
This chapter discusses the drug opium in the Romantic period. It covers the use of opium by Romamtic...
In early 19th-century Britain, opium was the aspirin and benzodiazepine of its day. It was available...
Poppy and its plantation had been there in Europe and it frequently appears in the 18th century Engl...
At the beginning of the 19th century, opium was widely used as an everyday remedy for common ailment...
Over the course of nineteenth-century England, opiate use and the attitudes towards its use shifted ...
This essay examines De Quincey’s representation of opium ‘addiction’ in the cross-cultural context o...
Ever since De Quincey's "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" announced the reality of opium addic...
Opium and China are synonymous, yet historians have so far failed to answer one key question: why wa...
This paper explores Thomas De Quincey's seminal text Confessions of an English Opium Eater, examinin...
Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a pal...
This chapter is from the book Beyond the Pleasure Dome: Writing and Addiction from the Romantics. Th...
This introduction to the special issue proposes that two discrete nineteenth-century histories of op...
This essay situates Thomas De Quincey's essay 'On the Opium and the China Question' published in Bla...
Four eminent English authors were addicted to opium. Each author spent a considerable part of his li...
To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilisation defeated by imperialist Britain's...
This chapter discusses the drug opium in the Romantic period. It covers the use of opium by Romamtic...
In early 19th-century Britain, opium was the aspirin and benzodiazepine of its day. It was available...
Poppy and its plantation had been there in Europe and it frequently appears in the 18th century Engl...
At the beginning of the 19th century, opium was widely used as an everyday remedy for common ailment...
Over the course of nineteenth-century England, opiate use and the attitudes towards its use shifted ...
This essay examines De Quincey’s representation of opium ‘addiction’ in the cross-cultural context o...
Ever since De Quincey's "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" announced the reality of opium addic...
Opium and China are synonymous, yet historians have so far failed to answer one key question: why wa...
This paper explores Thomas De Quincey's seminal text Confessions of an English Opium Eater, examinin...
Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a pal...
This chapter is from the book Beyond the Pleasure Dome: Writing and Addiction from the Romantics. Th...
This introduction to the special issue proposes that two discrete nineteenth-century histories of op...
This essay situates Thomas De Quincey's essay 'On the Opium and the China Question' published in Bla...
Four eminent English authors were addicted to opium. Each author spent a considerable part of his li...
To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilisation defeated by imperialist Britain's...