This collection captures key themes and issues in the broad history of addiction and vice in the Anglo-American world. Focusing on the long nineteenth-century,

This book explores the rise of the aesthetic category of addiction in the nineteenth century, a century that saw the development of an established medical sense

This collection of essays examines the way psychoactive substances are described and discussed within late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literary a

Alcohol use is complex and multifaceted. Our understanding must be also. Alcohol use, both problematic and not, can be understood at many levels – from basic