1. Situating Psychopharmacology in Literature and Culture
Natalie Roxburgh, Jennifer S. Henke
I. Drugs and Genre
2. Historicising Keats' Opium Imagery through Neoclassical Medical and Literary Discourses Octavia Cox
3. "Grief's comforter, Joy's guardian, good King Poppy!" Opium and Victorian Poetry
Irmtraud Huber
4. Dangerous Literary Substances: Discourses of Drugs and Dependence in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Novel Debates
Sarah Frühwirth
II. Rethinking the Pharmacological Body: Drugs and the Borders of the Human
5. Blurring Plant and Human Boundaries: Erasmus Darwin's The Loves of the Plants
C. A. Vaughn Cross
6. Pharmacokinetics and Opium-Eating: Metabolites, Stomach Aches and the Afterlife of De Quincey's Addiction
Hannah Markley
7. A Posthumanist Approach to Agency in De Quincey's Confessions
Anna Rowntree
III. The Cultural Politics of Known Drug Effects
8. Reading De Quinceyan Rhetoric Against the Grain: An Actor-Network-Theory Approach
Anuj Gupta
9. Blood Streams, Cash Flows and Circulations of Desire: Psychopharmacological Knowledge About Opium in Nineteenth-Century Women's Fiction
Nadine Böhm-Schnitker
10. The Indeterminate Pharmacology of Absinthe in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Beyond
Vanessa Herrmann
IV. Historicizing the Prescription: Medication and Self-Medication
11. "She furnishes the fan and the lavender water" Nervous Distress, Female Healers and Jane Austen's Herbal Medicine
Rebecca Spear
12. "When poor mama long restless lies, / She drinks the poppy's juice" Opium and Gender in British Romantic Literature
Joseph Crawford
13. Middlemarch and Medical Practice in the Regency Era: From "Bottles of Stuff" to the Clinical Gaze
Björn Bosserhoff
About the Author: Natalie Roxburgh is Lecturer and Research Fellow in English Literary Studies at the University of Siegen, Germany. She has published widely on a variety of topics--such as science, economics and politics--from the seventeenth century to the present, including a monograph titled Representing Public Credit: Credible Commitment, Fiction, and the Rise of the Financial Subject (2016).
Jennifer S. Henke is Assistant Professor at the University of Bremen, Germany. Her publications include topics ranging from Shakespeare in film to science and posthumanism. She is the author of the monograph Unsex Me Here (2014), and her second book deals with medicine and the pregnant female body in eighteenth-century literature and culture.
