Since the nineteenth century, the Western realistic novel has persistently represented the addict as a morally toxic force bent on destroying the institutions, practices, and ideologies that historically have connoted reason, order, civilization. Addiction, Representation undertakes an investigation into an alternative literary tradition that unsettles this limited portrayal of the addict. The book analyzes the practices and politics of reading the experimental addiction novel, and outlines both a practice and an ethics of reading that advocates for a more compassionate response to both diegetic and extra-diegetic addicts-an approach that, at its core, is focused on understanding.
| ISBN: | 9781785276132 |
| Publication date: | 15th December 2020 |
| Author: | Heath A Diehl |
| Publisher: | Anthem Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 250 pages |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: from c 2000 |