Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930

Douglas Small is a Lecturer in Nineteenth Century Literature at Edge Hill University, UK.

• Introduction 1. Coca Leaves, Edward Weston, and the Victorian Origins of Sports Doping 2. Conquerors of Pain: Cocaine Anaesthesia and the Ideal Medical Man 3. Brutal Fashions: Cosmetic Surgery and Tattooing at the Fin-de-Siècle 4. Cocaine Bugs and the Horrors of Addiction 5. Sherlock Holmes and Cocaine in Canon and Comedy: Profession, Pleasure, and the Zany 6. White Powder, White Fears: Race, Sex, and Masculinity in the Jazz Age Conclusion Bibliography

The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this open access book offers an important exploration of the drug's symbolic and metaphorical associations in the decades prior to its criminalization.