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Autore: |
Cannon Eoin F. <1973->
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Titolo: |
The saloon and the mission : addiction, conversion, and the politics of redemption in American culture / / Eoin F. Cannon
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Pubblicazione: | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2013 |
©2013 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.29/15750973 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Includes index. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-309) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The saloon and the mission ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-61376-272-0 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910463413003321 |
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