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The Addicted Self: Habit and Addiction in Early Modern Minds
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 67–81.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Jose Cree Abstract This article explores the formation and characterization of early modern addiction through the interactions of mind, body, and will, focusing particularly on the work of the sixteenth-century Christian philosopher Pierre de La Primaudaye. In La Primaudaye’s writings addiction...
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“That Vast Quantity of Laudanum I Have Been Known to Take”: Globalization, Empire, and the Performance of Addiction in the Eighteenth Century
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 82–100.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Benjamin Breen Abstract An impostor who claimed to be a refugee from Formosa (present-day Taiwan) named George Psalmanazar (1679?–1763) embodied two key aspects of addiction in eighteenth-century Europe: its connections to globalization and imperialism, and the complex interplay between the concept...
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Approaching Addiction: A Brief History
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 164–182.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Steve Sussman; Erika Wright Abstract This essay seeks to illuminate the shifting definitions of addiction over time by providing a brief, anecdotal history of addiction as well as a review of how it has been conceptualized by the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM classification system. While...
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Serving His Lord: Ishiguro and Devotional Addiction
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 150–163.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Anthony Cunningham Abstract This essay considers devotional addiction in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day . The novel tells the story of Mr. Stevens, a constant English butler in a rapidly changing world. Having spent his best years in service to Lord Darlington, he must adjust...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Rebecca Lemon 19 On the definition of the term addict , see Lemon, Addiction and Devotion ; Cree, “Protestant Evangelicals” ; and Rosenthal and Faris, “Etymology and Early History of ‘Addiction.’” 20 Joye, Psalter of Dauid in Englyshe , n.p. 21 Joye, “Fyfth Octonary...
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Opium and Logistical Nightmares
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 122–138.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Susan Zieger Abstract This essay argues that opium’s pivotal role in nineteenth-century political economy and aesthetics constructed addiction as a relationship between labor and capital that has persisted throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. Nineteenth-century discourses...
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A Primer for Rebellion: Indian Cannabis and Imperial Culture in the Nineteenth Century
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 101–121.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Utathya Chattopadhyaya Abstract This essay explores how the British imperial archive of cannabis addiction in the mid-nineteenth century was shaped by ideas of religious devotion, ordinary leisure, and anxieties arising from revolt and rebellion. It asks how cannabis was discursively constituted...
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Remaking the Drunkard in Early Stuart England
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 16–38.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., “Addiction, Intoxicants, and the Humoral Body.” 97 Johnson, Dictionary of the English language , s.v. “drunkard.” 98 Slack, “Politics of Consumption,” 611–16 . 99 Wrightson, Earthly Necessities , sec. 3. 100 Mather, Wo [ sic ] to Drunkards , 21. 101 Levine...
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Who Set You Feelin'? Harlem, Communal Affect, and the Great Migration Narrative in James Baldwin's “Sonny's Blues”
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 89–100.
Published: 01 March 2010
... speeding to w a rd s death (em b o d ie d in the uncle and in th e nar rator's brother, Sonny), establishes a direct, patrilineal link between the blues and bebop, the rural and the urban, alcoholism and heroin addiction, and im plies that bebop's heritage m ore d ire c tly d erives fro m blues singers...
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Sigma Alpha Elsinore: The Culture of Drunkenness in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 39–66.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Claudius complexity of character, separating him from melodramatic villainy. In the early modern age, addicted and addiction did not have the medical meaning they do today, as Jose Murgatrod Cree and Lemon have illustrated. 89 The concept was primarily religious, often with positive overtones...
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News and Novel, Pulse and Sprawl
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 21–28.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., Joseph Addison embodied those dangers in the person of one o f his first sustained fictional creations, the Political Upholsterer. Though the man's occupation is upholstery, his preoccupation is politics, and in him the habit o f inhabiting open-ended periodical narratives has grow n to an addiction; he...
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from Windfall
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 173.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of wine w ill help. Being 47. Being 90. Being 27. Miss USA gone w ild, place the w ord hom e to the left o f home, now be hom e he's addicted and it's not working. He can't get what he needs, Jack said. Make me a puppet. And men do n't get wom en, and wom en try but men are so full o f shit, Jack said. I...
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All Aboard: Reading, Writing, and Drinking with Ernest Hemingway
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 139–149.
Published: 01 April 2022
... for their careful attention to this essay. Parts of this essay first appeared in Dionysos and The Languages of Addiction , edited by Jane Lilienfeld and Jeffrey Oxford (1999). Thanks to Roger Forseth, Marty Roth, and Jane Lilienfeld for their helpful editorial comments and support in those publications...
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Didier Eribon, Returning to Reims
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (1): 183–184.
Published: 01 March 2015
... in g to Reims, trans, M ichael Lucey (Los Angeles: Sem io te xt(e ), 2013) For those of us addicted to stories of scholarship boys, the appearance of Didier Eribon's R eturning to R eim s is a m ajor event. A searching trea tm e nt o f his provincial, w orking-class origins by one of France's most prom...
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Fake News, Then and Now
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 138–141.
Published: 01 April 2024
... susceptible to the excitement and overstimulation of what we believe to be the newest information; the balloon hoax, Fash writes, is a metaphor for the news itself, exploiting as it does readers’ addiction to velocity (the speed at which the balloon traveled was a crucial element of the story). 8 Long...
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Horror, Trauma, and George A. Romero’s Martin (1978)
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 9–19.
Published: 01 October 2021
... impressions of Martin as a traumatized, drug-addicted Vietnam veteran, complete with hallucinatory visions and a propensity for sexual and murderous violence, shifts with this revelation of his vampiric nature. The drugs are not for him, they are for her; they replace the Hollywood vampire’s seductive stare...
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Visual Provocations: Using GIS Mapping to Explore Witi Ihimaera's Dear Miss Mansfield
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 67–80.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of this trajectory brings the narrator's generalized prejudice into sharper, and more obviously racist, relief. Over the course o f the journey, the narrator reflects on the Hutt Valley In pejora tive terms: For some reason the notion that the couple were drug addicts crossed his mind. There was a lot o f addiction...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2010
... n sensation novel, fo r instance, w ild ly p o p u la r in the 1860s, was "seen as a co lle c tive cultural nervous disorder, a m orbid addiction . . . that worked directly on the body of the reader," and was in particular liable to o verstim ulate and corrupt the susceptible body o f th e m iddle...
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The Fake-O-Meter
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 173–176.
Published: 01 March 2012
... agent w h o told him it w o u ld sell m ore copies if he called it a m e m o ir? W h o ever th o u g h t he'd m ake it to O pra h ? T h e book helped a lot o f addicts, d id n 't it? Suggested listening:The Backstreet Boys, m anufactured by '90s Boy Band im presario and Ponzi schem er Lou Pearlman. CARD...
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Aural Chiaroscuro: The Emergency Radio Broadcast in Orson Welles's The War of the Worlds
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 193–197.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., Typewriter, Film'1 Susan Sontag touts the pictoral shot or the photograph to be a part of w hat she calls the intrinsic violence embedded w ith in the "predatory w eapon" or the "addictive" "fantasy machine" that is the camera. This technology shoots; for Sontag the "camera is a sublim ation of the gun...
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