------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 14:54:35 -0500 Reply-to: VICTORIA 19th-Century British Culture & Society <[log in to unmask]> From: james eli adams <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: addiction To: [log in to unmask] 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