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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cox, O
Other Authors: Roxburgh, N
Format: Book section
Language:English
Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2020