From a thread on addiction on the listserv group Victoria ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 08:29:50 -0400 Reply-to: VICTORIA 19th-Century British Culture & Society <[log in to unmask]> From: Herbert Tucker <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: addiction To: [log in to unmask] On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Kirsten MacLeod wrote: > A few possible sources: > 1. Virginia Berridge zand Griffith Edwards. _Opium and the People: Opiate > Use in Nineteenth-Century England_ > 2. Annette Federico's "'I Must Have Drink': Addiction, Angst, and Victorian > Realism" in Dionysos 2 (1990): 11-25. > 3. Brian Harrison. _Drink and the Victorians_ > 4. Lilian Shiman. _Crusade Against Drink in Victorian England_ > 5. BArry Milligan. "'The Plague Spreading and Attacking our Vitals': Opium > Smoking and the Oriental Infection of the British Domestic Scene" Victorian > Literature and Culture 20 (1992): 161-77._ > 6. Terry M. Parsinnen. _Secret Passions, Secret Remedies: NArcotic Drugs in > British Society 1820-1930 Just a supplement: Milligan went on to publish a book on the subject, *Pleasures and Pains* (Virginia); and especially for literary-interpretive purposes Alethea Hayter's early book remains helpful: *Opium and. . .* (I forget the rest). Herbert Tucker [log in to unmask]