Addiction, Representation and the Experimental Novel, 1985–2015
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- ISBN 9781785276132
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Anthem Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Since the nineteenth century, the Western realistic novel has persistently represented the addict as a morally toxic force bent on destroying the institutions, practices, and ideologies that historically have connoted reason, order, civilization. Addiction, Representation undertakes an investigation into an alternative literary tradition that unsettles this limited portrayal of the addict. The book analyzes the practices and politics of reading the experimental addiction novel, and outlines both a practice and an ethics of reading that advocates for a more compassionate response to both diegetic and extra-diegetic addicts—an approach that, at its core, is focused on understanding.
Heath A. Diehl is Teaching Professor in the Department of English and Honors College at Bowling Green State University. He is the author of Wasted: Performing Addiction in America.
