Among the earliest accounts of hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four essays in this volume document Theophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire s involvement in the Hashish Club, which met under the auspices of investigating the psychological and mind-enhancing effects of various substances. As well as providing an absorbing account of 19th-century drug use, this volume captures the spirit of French Romanticism in its struggle to free the mind from the shackles of the humdrum and the conventional."
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Among the earliest accounts of hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four essays in this volume document Theophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire s involvement in the Hashish Club, which met under the auspices of investigating the psychological and mind-enhancing effects of various substances. As well as providing an absorbing account of 19th-century drug use, this volume captures the spirit of French Romanticism in its struggle to free the mind from the shackles of the humdrum and the conventional."
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