The saloon and the mission : addiction, conversion, and the politics of redemption in American culture / Eoin F. Cannon.

Author/creator Cannon, Eoin F., 1973-
Format Book
PublicationAmherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]
Copyright Date©2013
Descriptionxv, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
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.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 263-309) and index.
LCCN 2013001343
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