Literature and Intoxication

Eugene Brennan, Université Paris 13, FranceAlessandro Cabiati, University of Edinburgh, UKChristopher Collier, University of Essex, UKJoanna Figiel, City University London, UKAnne-Lucile Gérardot, University of Reims, FranceAlastair Hemmens, Cardiff University, UKAndrew Hussey, University of London, UKMike Jay, independent scholar, UK Joe Kennedy, University of Sussex, UKBenjamin Noys, University of Chichester, UKMatthieu Perrot, University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, FranceJoshua Rivas, Princeton University, USARussell Williams, American University of Paris, France

• Foreword: the Art of Hard Drugs; Andrew Hussey Acknowledgements Note on Contributors Introduction; Eugene Brennan and Russell Williams PART I: CULTURAL HISTORIES OF INTOXICATION 1. Writing and Intoxication: Drunken Philosophers, Crack Addicts and the Perpetual Present; Russell Williams 2. The Green Jam of 'Doctor X'. Science and Literature at the Club des Hashischins; Mike Jay PART II: POETIC INTOXICATIONS 3. Mourning and Mania: Visions of Intoxication and Death in the Poetry of Georges Bataille; Eugene Brennan 4. 'Riding the Lines'. The Poetics of the 'Chevauchements' in Henri Michaux's Drug Experiments; Mathieu Perrot 5. Fabulous Operas, Rock'n'Roll Shows: The Intoxication and Poetic Experimentation of Arthur Rimbaud and Jim Morrison; Alessandro Cabiati PART III: DIPSOMANIACAL NOVELISTS 6. Tipsiness and 'the Reigning Stupefaction' in the British Fiction of the Late 1940s; Joe Kennedy 7. 'Drink, She Said': Around the World of Durassian Alcohol; Anne-Lucille Gerardot PART IV: POLITICAL AND THEORETICAL CRITIQUES OF INTOXICATION 8. Intoxication and Toxicity in a 'Pharmacopornographic Era': Beatriz Preciado's Testo Junkie; Joshua Rivas 9. A Systemised Derangement of the Senses: The Situationist International and the Biopolitics of Derive; Christopher Collier and Joanna Figiel 10. 'Beau comme le tremblement des mains dans l'alcoolisme': A Cavalier History of Drugs and Intoxication in the Situationist International; Alastair Hemmens 11. Intoxication and Acceleration: The Politics of Immanence; Benjamin Noys Selected bibliography Index