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Description

1. 1 online resource (xv, 321 pages) : illustrations.

Uniform title

1. Saloon and the mission (Online)

Alternative title

1. Saloon and the mission (Online)

Subject

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

Bibliography (note)

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

Access (note)

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Author

1. Cannon, Eoin F., 1973-

Title

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

Imprint

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

Bibliography

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

Access

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

1. Available from home with a valid library card
2. Available onsite at NYPL

LCCN

1. 2013001343