03417nam 2200625 450 991080853310332120200520144314.01-5261-3472-11-5261-4193-01-5261-3471-3(CKB)4100000006670464(StDuBDS)EDZ0002046378(OCoLC)1053992468(MdBmJHUP)muse77776(Au-PeEL)EBL5512501(CaPaEBR)ebr11608920(MiAaPQ)EBC5512501(DE-B1597)658938(DE-B1597)9781526134714(EXLCZ)99410000000667046420180928d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe existential drinker /Steven EarnshawManchester Michigan :Manchester University Press,2019.1 online resource (288 pages)Manchester scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2018.0-7190-9961-7 Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index.I. Whiffs and gleams. Habitual drunkards and metaphysics : case studies from the Victorian period -- Jack London, John Barleycorn (1913) : truth -- II. The existential drinkers. Jean Rhys and drunken consciousness (1929-1939) -- Charles Jackson, The lost weekend (1944) : life projects -- Malcolm Lowry, Under the volcano (1947) : singular experiences -- Hans Fallada, The drinker (1950) : absurdity -- Brian Moore, The lonely passion of Judith Hearne (1955) : abandonment -- Frederick Exley, A fan's notes (1968) : authenticity -- Venedikt Yerofeev, Moscow-Petushki (1970) : self and others -- III. Enough : attic, Vegas, paradise. William Kennedy, Ironweed (1983) : fugitive souls and free spirits -- John O'Brien, Leaving Las Vegas (1990) : suicide -- A.L. Kennedy, Paradise (2004) : love.Drinking to excess has been a striking problem for industrial and post-industrial societies -- who is responsible when an individual opts for a slow suicide? The causes of such drinking have often been blamed on genes, moral weakness, 'disease' (addiction), hedonism, and Romantic illusion. Yet there is another reason: the drinker may act with sincere philosophical intent, exploring the edges of self, consciousness, will, ethics, authenticity and finitude. Beginning with Jack London's John Barleycorn: alcoholic memoirs the book goes on to cover novels such as Jean Rhys's Good morning, midnight, Malcolm Lowry's Under the volcano, Charles Jackson's The lost weekend and John O'Brien's Leaving Las Vegas, and less familiar works such as Frederick Exley's A fan's notes, Venedikt Yerofeev's Moscow-Petushki, and A. L. Kennedy's Paradise.Manchester scholarship online.AlcoholsAlcoholism.Drinking Studies.Drinking.Existentialism.Hedonism, Free will.Medical Humanities.Mental health.Twentieth-Century Literature.Alcohols.540.71Earnshaw Steven1600910MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808533103321The existential drinker4060864UNINA