Addiction and British visual culture, 1751-1919: wasted looks

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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.