Drug Themes in Fiction/Annotated Bibliography-Post Victorian

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

POST VICTORIAN

Works (not listed in original)
  1. The Diary of a Drug Fiend
  2. Java Head
  3. Narrow Corner


Author: Crowley, Aleister
Title: The Diary of a Drug Fiend
Publisher: E. P. Dutton, New York
Pages: 368 pp.
Date: 1923
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Exoticism
Annotation:After experimenting with drugs, a young couple become addicted and involved in a utopian drug commune led by a mysterious master.
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative.




Author: Hergesheimer, Joseph
Title: Java Head
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Pages: 279 pp.
Date: 1919
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Exoticism; Opium
Annotation:The son of an old seafaring family brings home a Manchu wife from China whose oriental ways include opium-smoking. A study in social contrasts and the view of drugs in 19th century America, particularly Salem, Massachusetts.
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative.





Author: Maugham, William Somerset
Title: Narrow Corner
Publisher: Doubleday, New York
Pages: 314 pp.
Date: 1932
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Escapism; Exoticism; Opium
Annotation:Opium-smoking appears to give an English doctor a psychological and philosophical detachment from life which allows him to leave his practice to treat a wealthy patient in the Malay Archipelago—a "narrow corner" of the earth.
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative.