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Junk wins by default : an examination of opiates on the creative mind in four key texts

MacCarthy, Francis (Dublin Business School, 2013)

In 1821, Thomas De Quincey’s seminal text on opium addiction, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, was published. The book combined a narrative driven by the squalor and desperation of addiction with a sense of psychological ...