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The saloon and the mission : addiction, conversion, and the politics of redemption in American culture
- Title
- The saloon and the mission : addiction, conversion, and the politics of redemption in American culture / Eoin F. Cannon.
- Author
- Cannon, Eoin F., 1973-
- Publication
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]
- ©2013
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Details
- Description
- xv, 321 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Alcoholism in literature
- Alcoholism > Treatment > United States > History
- Temperance in literature
- Alcoholics > Rehabilitation > United States > History
- Rescue missions (Church work) > United States > History
- Recovery movement > United States > History
- Alcoholism > Social aspects > United States > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-309) and index.
- Contents
- 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
- JFE 13-6324
- ISBN
- 9781558499928 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 155849992X (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781558499935 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1558499938 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013001343
- 40022472795
- OCLC
- 823045296
- Author
- Cannon, Eoin F., 1973-
- Title
- The saloon and the mission : addiction, conversion, and the politics of redemption in American culture / Eoin F. Cannon.
- Publisher
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-309) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022472795
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-6324