Zieger (English, U. of California at Riverside) situates 19th century British and American fiction about addiction within its cultural contexts. She examines those moments when addiction and the addict become newly visible through changes in narrative and metaphor. Topics include the association between drug-taking and imperial knowledge in drug autobiographies such as De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, intemperance as self-enslavement in Uncle Tom's Cabin, similarities between representations of queer desire and addicted desire in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the rise of eugenics and the shifting understanding of addiction as racial defect in the vampire narratives of Bram Stoker's Dracula and Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)