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Date:          Sun, 11 Apr 1999 14:54:35 -0500
Reply-to:      VICTORIA 19th-Century British Culture & Society
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From:          james eli adams <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:       Re: addiction
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As yet an earlier contribution than Althea Hayter's Opium and the Romantic
Imagination, mentioned by Chip Tucker, there is a work from the 1930s by
M.H. Abrams, *The Milk of Paradise*.  Long overshadowed by Abrams's
subsequent, more illustrious work, this study was reprinted in the late
1960s--rather to Abrams's amusement: it was a revealing gauge of the
topicality of drug use that the publishers didn't seem to care that what
they were reprinting was basically a Harvard senior thesis.

James Eli Adams
Indiana University, Bloomington