Historicising Keats’ opium imagery through Neoclassical medical and literary discourses
This chapter argues that conceptions of opium in long-eighteenth-century culture, in medical and literary genres of writing alike, predominantly harked back to classical precedent, which had dominated for centuries, there being then scant scientific understanding of opium’s chemical physiological me...
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Palgrave Macmillan
2020
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