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

Author:
Cannon, Eoin F., 1973-
Published:
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]
Physical Description:
xv, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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.
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ISBN:
9781558499928 (hardcover : alk. paper)
155849992X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781558499935 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1558499938 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-309) and index.
View MARC record | catkey: 19431168