Hashish, Wine, Opium - Couverture souple

Baudelaire, Charles; Gautier, Théophile

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 184749093X ISBN 13 : 9781847490933

Editeur : Alma Classics, 2009

Synopsis

Among the earliest artistic accounts of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume document Gautier and Baudelaire's own involvement in the Club of Assassins, who met under the auspices of Dr Moreau to investigate the psychological and mind-enhancing effects of hashish, wine and opium.As well as providing an absorbing of nineteenth-century drug use, "Hashish, Wine, Opium" captures the spirit of French Romanticism, in its struggle to free the mind from the shackles of the humdrum and the conventional, and serves as a fascinating prologue to the psychedelic literature of the following centuries.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Graham Chesters is Professor of French and Director of the Institute for Learning at the University of Hull; he is the author of "Baudelaire and the Poetics of Craft" (1998), as well as many articles on French poetry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Alma Classics
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 184749093X
• ISBN 13: 9781847490933
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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