The Dedalus book of absinthe /
Absinthe is currently enjoying an extraordinary revival, after being banned and driven underground throughout Europe and America for most of the twentieth century. Far stronger than other spirits, absinthe is said to induce further drug-like sensations of mood lift and inspiration due to the presenc...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Baker, Phil, |d 1961- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Dedalus book of absinthe / |c Phil Baker. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Book of absinthe |
| 264 | 1 | |a Sawtry : |b Dedalus, |c 2001. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2001 | |
| 300 | |a xi, 296 pages : |b illustrations, portraits ; |c 20 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
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| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Prologue. |t Three coffins in the morning -- |g Chapter one. |t What does absinthe mean -- |t Vice -- |t Marie Corelli -- |g The |t sublime -- |t Aleister Crowley -- |t George Saintsbury -- |g The |t part of the whole -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Chapter two. The |t 1890s -- |t Enoch Soames at the Café Royal -- |t Fleet Street nights -- |t Arthur Symons -- |t Oscar Wilde -- |g The |t backlash -- |g The |t Green Carnation -- |t Smithers and the Savoy -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Chapter three. The |t life and death of Ernest Dowson -- |t Stranger in a strange land -- |t Faithful in his fashion -- |t "Like a protoplasm in the embryo of a troglodyte" -- |t Jekyll and Hyde -- |g A |t night out in the East End -- |t Paris and religion -- |t Peacefully in Catford -- |t Yeats is mistaken -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Chapter four. |t Meanwhile in France -- |t Alfred du Musset -- |t Baudelaire -- |t Verlaine -- |t Rimbaud -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Chapter five. |t Genius unrewarded -- |t Communication with other planets -- |t Strindberg the alchemist -- |t Villiers de L'Isle Adam -- |t Alfred Jarry -- |g A |t man of letters -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Chapter six. |t From antiquity to the Green Hour -- |g The |t useful herb -- |t Bitterness -- |g A |t tonic is invented -- |g The |t Bat d'Af -- |t Bourgeois habits under the Second Empire -- |g The |t Green Hour -- |t Bohemia -- |t Inspiration -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Chapter seven. |t Before the ban -- |t Bad scenes at the Absinthe Hotel -- |t Female troubles -- |t Zola, Manet, and Degas -- |t Orpen -- |t Absinthe and the workers -- |t 'It kills you but it makes you live' -- |t Absinthism and the spectre of degeneration -- |t Sad news about Toulouse-Lautrec -- |t Picasso -- |t Not before time -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Chapter eight. |t After the ban -- |t Nostalgia -- |t Death in America -- |t Hemingway -- |t Harry Crosby -- |t American Gothic -- |g The |t English are amused -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Chapter nine. The |t absinthe revival -- |t Prague -- |g The |t Idler -- |t Johnny Depp has need of a crate -- |g An |t open secret -- |t Mixology -- |g The |t French are not amused -- |g The |t birth of La Fée -- |g The |t Charenton Omnibus revisited -- |t Laissez faire -- |t Dissenting voices -- |g A |t word from Mr. Social Control -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Chapter ten. The |t rituals of absinthe -- |t Fire and water -- |g The |t louche -- |t Modus operandi -- |g A |t pleasure in itself -- |g The |t absinthe professors -- |g The |t language of absinthe -- |t More classic methods -- |t Valentin has a better idea -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Chapter eleven. |t What does absinthe do? -- |g A |t different experience -- |t Placebos and learned intoxication -- |t Absinthism revisited -- |t Thujone -- |g The |t strange case of Vincent Van Gogh -- |t Recreational wormwood abuse -- |g The |t mystery solved -- |t Coca wine and the speedball effect -- |t 'Alcohol kills you slowly' -- |g Appendix one. |t Some absinthe texts -- |g Appendix two. |t Modern brands tested -- |t Notes -- |t Bibliography -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Index. |
| 520 | |a Absinthe is currently enjoying an extraordinary revival, after being banned and driven underground throughout Europe and America for most of the twentieth century. Far stronger than other spirits, absinthe is said to induce further drug-like sensations of mood lift and inspiration due to the presence of wormwood, its notorious special ingredient. And before long - so the story goes - it leads to insanity, homicidal mania and death. No drink has ever had such a bad reputation. Beginning with the 1905 Absinthe Murders, this book offers a cultural history of absinthe, from its modest origins as a herbal tonic through its luxuriantly morbid heyday in the late nineteenth century. Along with a number of fascinating but little known characters, who often died young, the absinthe scrapbook contains Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, Aleister Crowley, Arthur Machen, Strindberg, Alfred Jarry, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Alphonse Allais, Ernest Hemingway and Picasso. | ||
| 520 | |a After discussing the rituals and modus operandi of absinthe drinking, this book reveals the recently discovered pharmacology of how real absinthe actually works on the nervous system. Last but not least, an appendix tests the various real and fake absinthe products that are now available. From 1890s decadence to the American Gothic subculture, this is the most up-to-date and wide-ranging study of a substance that is as mythical as opium. - Back cover. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Absinthe |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Drinking customs |x History. | |
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