The serpent in the cup : temperance in American literature

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Title:

The serpent in the cup : temperance in American literature

Author:

Reynolds, David S., 1948-

Publication Information:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [1997]

Physical Description:

vi, 237 pages ; 24 cm

Language:

English

Contents:

The demonization of the tavern / David S. Shields -- Black cats and delirium tremens : temperance and the American renaissance / David S. Reynolds -- Temperance in the bed of a child : incest and social order in nineteenth-century America / Karen Sánchez-Eppler -- "Whiskey, blacking, and all" : temperance and race in William Wells Brown's Clotel / Robert S. Levine -- Slaves to the bottle : Gough's Autobiography and Douglass's Narrative / John W. Crowley -- Temperance, morality, and medicine in the fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe / Nicholas O. Warner -- Deracialized discourse : temperance and racial ambiguity in Harper's "The two offers" and Sowing and reaping / Debra J. Rosenthal -- "Alcoholism" and the modern temper / John W. Crowley -- "Bill's story" : form and meaning in A.A. recovery narratives / Edmund O'Reilly -- Drink and disorder in the classroom / Joan D. Hedrick.

Subject Term:

American literature -- History and criticism.

Temperance in literature.

Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- United States -- History.

Didactic literature, American -- History and criticism.

Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature.

Temperance -- United States -- History.

Alcoholism -- United States -- History.

Alcoholism in literature.

Added Author:

Reynolds, David S., 1948-

Rosenthal, Debra J., 1964-