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Cannon Eoin F. <1973-> |
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The saloon and the mission : addiction, conversion, and the politics of redemption in American culture / / Eoin F. Cannon |
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Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (342 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Alcoholism - Social aspects - United States - History |
Alcoholism - Treatment - United States - History |
Alcoholics - Rehabilitation - United States - History |
Temperance in literature |
Alcoholism in literature |
Rescue missions (Church work) - United States - History |
Recovery movement - United States - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-309) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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