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Title:

The serpent in the cup : temperance in American literature / edited by David S. Reynolds and Debra J. Rosenthal.

Publisher:

University of Massachusetts Press,

Copyright Date:

c1997

Description:

vi, 237 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.

Other Authors:

Reynolds, David S., 1948-
Rosenthal, Debra J., 1964-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

9781558490819 (cloth : alk. paper)
1558490817 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781558490826 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1558490825 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)36201379

LCCN:

96053230

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)