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The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this open access book offers an important exploration of the drug's symbolic and metaphorical associations in the decades prior to its criminalization.

Examining the paradoxical position of cocaine in this period by looking at its role as an icon of technology, modernity and idealised medical identity, alongside developing notions of habituation and dependence, this book reads texts such as the Sherlock Holmes stories, by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as work by Arthur Machen, W.C Morrow and Aleister Crowley.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust.

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The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this open access book offers an important exploration of the drug's symbolic and metaphorical associations in the decades prior to its criminalization. * British Association for Victorian Studies Newsletter * Cocaine, Literature, and Culture presents a vital body of research and recovers lost and overlooked implications of the arrival of cocaine as both substance and metaphor. Drug history is suffused with ideological snares and retrospective impositions. Smalls approach is not simply corrective but rather helps us to grasp the powerful effect of this singular substance on the Victorian cultural imagination. * Sean A. Witters, Senior Lecturer, University of Vermont, USA * Douglas R. J. Smalls Cocaine, Literature and Culture, 18761930, is a refreshing exploration of cocaine in the public imagination, concentrating on cocaine as it appears in fictional narratives of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries There is engaging analysis of a range of fictional texts by Conan Doyle, Machen, Morrow, and Crowley. Overall, this is a highly readable and entertaining, text. Smalls writing style is both fluent and entertaining, as he offers new and exciting perspectives on the use of cocaine during the period 18461930. -- Jessica Thomas * The British Society for Literature and Science *

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The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, this book offers an important exploration of the symbolic and metaphorical associations of cocaine in the decades prior to its criminalization.
Introduction

1. Coca Leaves, Edward Weston, and the Victorian Origins of Sports
Doping
2. Conquerors of Pain: Cocaine Anaesthesia and the Ideal Medical Man

3. Brutal Fashions: Cosmetic Surgery and Tattooing at the Fin-de-Sičcle

4. Cocaine Bugs and the Horrors of Addiction

5. Sherlock Holmes and Cocaine in Canon and Comedy: Profession,
Pleasure,
and the Zany

6. White Powder, White Fears: Race, Sex, and Masculinity in the Jazz
Age
Conclusion

Bibliography
Douglas Small is a Lecturer in Nineteenth Century Literature at Edge Hill University, UK.