ch. 1. Place of hallucinations in Under the volcano -- ch. 2. Brideshead revisited: Sebastian's alcoholism as a spiritual illness -- ch. 3. Iceman cometh and the anatomy of alcoholism -- ch. 4. Drinking and society in the fiction of John Cheever -- ch. 5. Albee's drinking: Bellow's The victim -- ch. 6. Winding road to Pat Hobby: Fitzgerald confronts alcoholism -- ch. 7. John Berryman and drinking: from jest to sober earnest -- ch. 8. Jim, Jake, and Gordon: alcohol and comedy.
