| Description |
vi, 237 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Demonization of the tavern / David S. Shields -- Black cats and delirium tremens : temperance and the American renaissance / David S. Reynolds -- Temperance in the bed of a child : incest and social order in nineteenth-century America / Karen Sanchez-Eppler -- "Whiskey, blacking, and all" : temperance and race in William Wells Brown's Clotel / Robert S. Levine -- Slaves to the bottle : Gough's Autobiography and Douglass's Narrative / John W. Crowley -- Temperance, morality, and medicine in the fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe / Nicholas O. Warner -- Deracialized discourse : temperance and racial ambiguity in Harper's "The two offers" and Sowing and reaping / Debra J. Rosenthal -- "Alcoholism" and the modern temper / John W. Crowley -- "Bill's story" : form and meaning in A.A. recovery narratives / Edmund O'Reilly -- Drink and disorder in the classroom / Joan D. Hedrick. |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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Temperance in literature.
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- United States -- History.
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Didactic literature, American -- History and criticism.
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature.
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Temperance -- United States -- History.
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Alcoholism -- United States -- History.
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Alcoholism in literature.
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| Added Author |
Reynolds, David S., 1948-
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Rosenthal, Debra J., 1964-
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| ISBN |
1558490825 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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1558490817 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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