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- Introduction
- Victorian Drug Use
- Victorian Terms used to Describe Addiction
- The Role of Habit in Addiction
- Opium & Infant Mortality
- The Medicinal Use of Opium in England
- Temperance and Teetotalism
- The Medical "Discovery" of Addiction
- Conclusion: Acts and Identities
Addiction, the Arts, and Literature
- George Cruikshank’s The Bottle, a 7-part Hogarthian series on the evils of drink
- Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood and the Chinese Opium Wars
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"
- Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821; text)
- Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone
- Representations of Drugs in Nineteenth-Century Literature
The Social and Political Contexts of Addiction
- England and China: The Opium Wars, 1839-60
- The Consumption of Opium in China
- The Principle of Extraterritoriality and the Opium Wars, 1839-60
- Commissioner Lin Ze-xu's Letter to Queen Victoria
Last modified 9 December 2022