The saloon and the mission : addiction, conversion, and the politics of redemption in American culture / / Eoin F. Cannon
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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 | |
| 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.: | 9910788493603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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