Research Catalog

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Description

1. xv, 321 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

1. Alcoholism in literature
2. Alcoholism > Treatment > United States > History
3. Temperance in literature
4. Alcoholics > Rehabilitation > United States > History
5. Rescue missions (Church work) > United States > History
6. Recovery movement > United States > History
7. Alcoholism > Social aspects > United States > History

Contents

1. Introduction : addiction recovery and the world as it should be -- The drunkard's conversion and the salvation of the social order -- "What a radical found in Water Street" -- The varieties of conversion polemic -- New Deal individualism and the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous -- Literary realism and the secularization of the drunkard's conversion -- The drinker's epiphany in modernist literature -- The iceman cometh and the drama of disillusion -- Recovery memoir and the crack-up of liberalism -- Conclusion : addiction in a new era of recovery.

Call number

1. JFE 13-6324

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-309) and index.

Author

1. Cannon, Eoin F., 1973-

Title

1. The saloon and the mission : addiction, conversion, and the politics of redemption in American culture / Eoin F. Cannon.

Publisher

1. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]

Copyright date

1. ©2013

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-309) and index.

LCCN

1. 2013001343

Other standard identifier

1. 40022472795

ISBN

1. 9781558499928 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2. 155849992X (hardcover : alk. paper)
3. 9781558499935 (pbk. : alk. paper)
4. 1558499938 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 13-6324