The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs

by Marcus Boon

Book Overview

From the antiquity of Homer to yesterday's Naked Lunch, writers have found inspiration, and readers have lost themselves, in a world of the imagination tinged and oftentimes transformed by drugs. The age-old association of literature and drugs receives its first comprehensive treatment in this far-reaching work. Drawing on history, science, biography, literary analysis, and ethnography, Marcus Boon shows that the concept of drugs is fundamentally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674017560
• ISBN13: 9780674017566
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.9"