The serpent in the cup : temperance in American literature /

The serpent in the cup : temperance in American literature /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Reynolds, David S., 1948-, Rosenthal, Debra J., 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [1997]
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
Temperance in literature.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages > United States > History.
Didactic literature, American > History and criticism.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature.
Temperance > United States > History.
Alcoholism > United States > History.
Alcoholism in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • The 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 Sánchez-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.