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Author Warner, Nicholas O., 1950-

Title Spirits of America : intoxication in nineteenth-century American literature / Nicholas O. Warner.

Publication Info. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [1997]
©1997

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 Moore Stacks  PS217.D75 W37 1997    Available  ---
Description xiii, 290 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-284) and index.
Contents Introduction: the varieties of intoxicated experience -- God's wine and devil's wine: the idea of intoxication in Emerson -- Little tippler's discerning eye: Dickinson and visionary drunkenness -- Beyond the sober eye of reason: Poe and the paradoxes of intoxication -- Gentleman's part: drinking and moral style in Cooper -- From conviviality to vision: intoxication in Hawthorne -- Too sober or too drunken: Melville's dialogics of drink -- Forbidden fruit: nineteenth-century American female authorship and the discourses of intoxication.
Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Drinking customs -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Drinking customs.
United States.
History.
Drug abuse -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Drug abuse.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature.
Alcoholism in literature.
Alcoholism in literature.
Drug abuse in literature.
Drug abuse in literature.
ISBN 0806118733 cloth alkaline paper