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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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Published: 01 April 2022
Figure 2. Walter S. Sherwill, The Opium Fleet , in Illustrations (1851).
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 82–100.
Published: 01 April 2022
... . Bacon, in turn, apparently drew on the accounts of the Portuguese physicians Garcia de Orta ( Colóquios , “Colóquio 41: Do Amfiam”) and Cristóbal Acosta ( Aromatum , 21–22 ), with Acosta claiming, for example, that opium was “of great use in Asia and Africa” but harmful to European bodies unless used...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 April 2022
... paradigm,” medical historians tell us. This new paradigm “constituted a radical break with traditional ideas about the problems involved in drinking and alcohol.” 15 Specifically, opinion shifted on habitual drunkenness (and in turn on opium use and other addictive behaviors) from moral condemnation...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 164–182.
Published: 01 April 2022
... to its definition. The earliest and most common way to categorize various addictions has been around the substances one might take, such as those featured in this issue: opium, alcohol, and tobacco are among the most studied, as they have the longest literary, cultural, and treatment histories...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 101–121.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Hindus and Muslims from sectarian violence. 30 Shah could not control Muslim “fanatics,” the report declared, and in the deliberations over peacekeeping, was “in a continual state of stupefaction from opium or bhang,” leaving his prime minister and “the English Resident and his assistants, as the real...
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (1): 75–80.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Thomas Dilworth Copyright © 2003 Regents of the University of Colorado 2003 September 2003 75 about the mysterious ways of the East, EzraJennings too can be identified with the East, from his mixed-race origins and birth at an unnamed Colonial outpost, to his use of opium, a drug often...
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (1): 69–75.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of the East, EzraJennings too can be identified with the East, from his mixed-race origins and birth at an unnamed Colonial outpost, to his use of opium, a drug often associated with the Orient. Though he is helpful, Ezra Jennings is as mysterious as the Indians who seek the return of the Moonstone...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 71–79.
Published: 01 March 2009
... to De Quincey's depiction in The Confessions o f an English Opium Eater of his encounter, in Dove Cottage in the Lake District, w ith a Malay. Can readings of this m om ent lead to the kind o f "superficial," "a dd itive" consolidation o f norm ative tradition that Marlon Ross cau tions us about...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 33–40.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Schopenhauer pointed this out over a hundred and fifty years ago. "In order to heighten his pleasure, man deliberately increases his needs, which were originally only a little more d iffic u lt to satisfy than those of the animal; hence luxury, delicacies, tobacco, opium, alcoholic liquors, pomp, display...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (2): 51–62.
Published: 01 September 2010
...,"17 framed throughout much o f Narrative as a "m ystery . . . this self-isolated Kingdom " (15). Especially after British victory in the Opium War of 1840-42 further expanded western comm ercial and naval reach in the China Seas, this secluded Japan became an even m ore attractive prospect. The first...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (2): 189–200.
Published: 01 September 2010
... In Le Poème du hachisch, the essay that he writes as a com panion piece to his translation and adaptation of de Quincey's Confessions o f an Opium Eater, which he publishes as Les Paradis artificiels, Baudelaire describes the experience of intoxication from hashish in terms nearly identical to those...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (2): 193–209.
Published: 01 September 2008
... wom an, takes Dorothy back to her room, offers her opium , and then seduces her. Meanwhile they are observed by Mrs. W endy Potter, née Durling, who eats dinner subm issively w ith her repressed prig of a husband w hile casting longing glances in the direction of the tw o flirtin g wom en (Color Plate...
