The Saloon and the Mission : Addiction, Conversion, and the Politics of Redemption in American Culture /

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In this book, the author illuminates the role sobriety movements have played in placing notions of personal and societal redemption at the heart of modern American culture. The author argues against the dominant scholarly perception that recovery narratives are private and apolitical, showing that i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cannon, Eoin F., 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Temperance in literature.
Rescue missions (Church work)
Recovery movement.
Alcoholism > Treatment.
Alcoholism > Social aspects.
Alcoholism in literature.
Alcoholics > Rehabilitation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Alcoolisme > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
Alcoolisme > Traitement > États-Unis > Histoire.
Alcooliques > Readaptation > États-Unis > Histoire.
Temperance dans la litterature.
Alcoolisme dans la litterature.
Missions de secours (Pastorale) > États-Unis > Histoire.
Recovery Movement > États-Unis > Histoire.
Alcoholism > Social aspects > United States > History.
Alcoholism > Treatment > United States > History.
Alcoholics > Rehabilitation > United States > History.
Rescue missions (Church work) > United States > History.
Recovery movement > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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