Hangover : a literary and cultural history.

What is a hangover? How does it feel to suffer from one? What can hangovers tell us about the way attitudes to alcohol have developed over time? This book sets out to answer these questions and many others by examining 'hangover literature' from the Renaissance to the present day.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: SHEARS, JONATHON
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] LIVERPOOL UNIV Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature.
Hangover.
Gueule de bois.
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
Literary studies: from c 1900.
Social & cultural history.
Literary studies: general.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Modern > General.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature
Hangover
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Isolating, Placing and Contextualising the Hangover
  • 2. 'The Nausea of Sin': The Early Modern Hangover
  • 3. 'Baneful to Public and to Private Good': Hours of Illness and Idleness in the Long Eighteenth Century
  • 4. Odes to Dejection: Romanticism and the Melancholy of Self-knowledge
  • 5. Moral Sensitivity and the Mind: Tired and Emotional Victorians
  • 6. The Hangover and the Outsider: Self-fashioning, Shame and Defiance in Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century Fiction
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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