Addiction and British visual culture, 1751-1919 : wasted looks / Julia Skelly.

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2014]

xii, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction : the visual politics of addiction -- Wasted mothers : reading William Hogarth's Gin lane -- From graphic satire to temperance art : George Cruikshank's addiction to sobriety -- Addictive architecture : the Crystal Palace, gin palaces and women's consumption -- Closeting addiction : confinement, punishment, concealment -- Advertising masculine vulnerability : cocaine and cigarettes after the First World War -- Conclusion.

Includes bibliographical references and index.