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The serpent in the cup : temperance in American literature
- Title
- The serpent in the cup : temperance in American literature / edited by David S. Reynolds and Debra J. Rosenthal.
- Publication
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1997.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 98-302 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- vi, 237 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages > United States > History
- Temperance > United States > History
- Didactic literature, American > History and criticism
- Temperance in literature
- Alcoholism in literature
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature
- American literature > History and criticism
- Alcoholism > United States > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 98-302
- ISBN
- 1558490817 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1558490825 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96053230
- OCLC
- 36201379
- Title
- The serpent in the cup : temperance in American literature / edited by David S. Reynolds and Debra J. Rosenthal.
- Imprint
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1997.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Reynolds, David S., 1948-Rosenthal, Debra J., 1964-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 98-302