Addiction Literature's Past and Present

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910874663503321
• Autore: Ronan Mark
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024; ©2024
• ISBN: 9783031654268; 9783031654251
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 pages)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Contents -- Chapter 1: General Introduction: Premodern Addiction and Addiction Literature -- General Structure -- Chapter 2: Modern Addiction Discourse -- Chapter 3: Modern Addiction Literature -- Chapter 4: Premodern Discursive and Didactic Texts -- Chapter 5: Addicted to Love in Premodern Literature -- Chapter 6: Bestial Behaviour in Late Medieval and Early Modern Addiction Literature -- References -- Chapter 2: Modern Conceptions of Addiction -- Introduction -- Can We Talk About Addiction in Premodern Texts/Contexts? -- What Is Addiction? Experience and Expression -- Addiction as a Crisis of Personal Behavioural Agency -- Addiction as Career Narrative -- Second Nature, Or the Malleability of Brain Chemistry -- Dopamine's Positive and Negative Behavioural Reinforcements -- Neural Plasticity as a Narrative of Hope -- Experience as Evidence -- What Is Addictive? Substances and Behaviours -- The Modern Consumption-Based Conception of Addiction -- Modern Addictions and Premodern Habits -- Through the Hourglass: From Behaviours to Substances, and Back Again -- The Physiological Case for an Umbrella Conception of Addiction -- When Is Addiction? We Need to Talk About Anachronism -- Constructionist Chickens and Essentialist Eggs: What Came First, Illness or Disease? -- Development of a Disease Model -- Addiction as an Invented Problem -- Conclusion -- References -- ; Chapter 3: Modern Addiction Literature -- Introduction -- Putting a Shape on the Literary Phenomenon -- The Why of Addiction -- The Physical Analgesic -- The Psychological Analgesic -- The How of Addiction -- Addiction as Progressive Metamorphosis -- Ignored Negatives -- Initial Hubris -- Settings of Deterioration -- Physiological Deterioration -- Psychological Deterioration -- Duality and Agency -- A Divided Self -- Figurative Language.; Bestial Metaphors -- Bondage Metaphors -- Behavioural Addictions -- Conceptual Cones (&lt -- ) or Hourglasses (&gt -- &lt -- ) -- Conceptualising Substance Addiction Through the Analogies of Habit -- Framing Behavioural Addictions Through the Lens of Substance Addiction -- Gambling Addiction in The Last Man -- Addicted to Love in Modern Addiction Literature -- Conclusion -- Bridging the Gap from Modern to Premodern -- References -- Chapter 4: Premodern Addiction Discourse, Antiquity to Medieval -- Introduction -- Plato -- Plato on the Compartmentalised Will -- Plato's Figurative Language of Impaired Agency -- Progressive Deterioration of Behavioural Agency -- Identity Moulded by Behaviour -- Aristotle -- Aristotle on the Compartmentalised Will -- Categories of Problematic Behaviour -- Personal Behavioural Agency -- Recovery of Behavioural Agency -- Habit Formation -- Prudentius -- Progressive Behavioural Ensnarement -- Behavioural Vigilance -- Boethius -- Intervention Narrative -- An Umbrella Conception of Addictive Behaviours -- Narrative of Progressive Behavioural Ensnarement -- Figurative Language of Impaired Behavioural Agency -- Contemptus Mundi -- Thomas Aquinas -- A Universal Drive Towards Fulfilment -- The Pursuit of Pleasure -- Pleasure and Impaired Agency -- Progression From Indulgence to Addiction -- Habitus and the Ladder of Being -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Addicted to Love -- Introduction -- The Poetics of Love and Addiction -- The Disease of Love in Ovid -- The Disease of Love in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde -- The Physiology of Lovesickness -- The Psychology of Lovesickness -- The Course of Love -- Love as Agential Impairment -- The Negative Consequences of Love -- Pandarus as Love's Leche -- Addicted to Love in Gower's Confessio Amantis -- Addiction and the Narrative of the Confessio -- The Frame as Recovery Narrative.; The Problematic Nature of Amans' Love -- Amans as Addict -- The Arc of Amans' Addicted Career and Recovery -- Genius' Method of Recovery -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Anthropomorphised Beasts and Bestial Men -- Introduction -- Conditioning and Compulsion in the Aesopic Fables -- The Possibility of Change in Beast Fables -- Nature Changed Through Behaviour -- The Progressive Path to Behavioural Bondage -- Reason Usurped by Appetite -- The Exeter Book's "The Whale" -- Addictions in Henryson's Fables -- The Possibility of Change -- The Fox, the Woolf, and the Problem of Repreif -- Acquired Dispositions in "The Two Mice" -- Behavioural Vigilance and the Insidious Progression of Sin in "The Preaching of the Swallow" -- The Image of the Beast Today -- The Beast, the Lion and the Man in Shakespeare's Henriad -- Falstaff's Master Passion -- Hotspur as the Lion of Anger -- Hal: Plato's Man of Reason -- The Expectation of a Behavioural Pathology -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: General Conclusion -- References -- Index.