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The nineteenth-century opium complex: From Thomas Love Peacock to Sherlock Holmes
| Content Provider | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| Author | McDonagh, Josephine Wickes, Briony |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Abstract | This introduction to the special issue proposes that two discrete nineteenth-century histories of opium – a literary history, initiated by the drug confessions of De Quincey, and a colonial history, exemplified by the commercial activities of the East India Company (in which Thomas Love Peacock participated) in cultivating opium in Bengal for export to China, leading to the first Opium War – are common elements in a nineteenth-century ‘opium complex’, a set of interlocking practices of individuals and (quasi)state actors, extending across the globe. Sherlock Holmes detective stories are read as compressed registers of tensions that inhere in this complex. |
| Related Links | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0306197320907437?download=true |
| Starting Page | 3 |
| Ending Page | 18 |
| Page Count | 16 |
| ISSN | 03061973 |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 29 |
| Journal | Literature & History (LAH) |
| e-ISSN | 20504594 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0306197320907437 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Sage Publications UK |
| Publisher Date | 2020-05-11 |
| Publisher Place | London |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © The Author(s) 2020 |
| Subject Keyword | opium empire Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) 1856–60) Opium Wars (1839–41 nineteenth-century opium complex Sherlock Holmes |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | History Literature and Literary Theory |
