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This is a systematically arranged, annotated collection of outstanding literary works dealing with drink. It centers on some of the most enduring themes in both literary depictions of drinking and alcohol research: causes of drinking; effects of drinking; the tavern; drinking and family life; drinking and gender; and the spiritual dimension of drinking. Organized into chapters reflecting these themes, it encourages readers to think about drinking alcohol as a practice that is deeply cultural as well as biochemical. After a comprehensive introduction, the anthology provides informative headnotes to each selection, and ranges broadly across different cultures and periods, thus providing insights into patterns of similarity and difference in literature's treatment of a controversial, pervasive aspect of human experience.
Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
I. CAUSES OF DRINKING
Li Bo, "Drinking Song" (8th century)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "The Poet" (1844)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, from The Blithedale Romance (1852)
Leo Tolstoy, "Why Then Do Men Stupefy Themselves?" (1890)
Tennessee Williams, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
II. EFFECTS OF DRINKING
William Shakespeare, from Macbeth (1605), and Othello (1604)
Robert Burns, "John Barleycorn" (1782)
Thomas Dekker and John Ford, "Cast Away Care" (1656)
Daniel Defoe, from Colonel Jack (1722)
James Fenimore Cooper, from The Pioneers (1823)
Charles Dickens, from David Copperfield (1849-50)
Herman Melville, from Moby- Dick (1851)
Mark Twain, "Edward Mills and George Benton" (1880)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, from Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892)
III. DRINKING AND THE TAVERN
William Blake, "The Little Vagabond" (1794) and Stephen Crane, from George's Mother (1896)
Charles Dickens, "Gin- Shops" (1836)
James Joyce, "Counterparts" (1914)
Langston Hughes, "Cocktail Sip" (1953)
Nicolás Guillén, "Bars" (1958)
John Keats, "Lines on the Mermaid Tavern" (1818) and E.E. Cummings, "i was sitting in mcsorleys" (1922)
IV. DRINKING AND THE FAMILY
Walt Whitman, "Reuben's Last Wish" (1856)
Émile Zola, from L'Assommoir (The Dram- Shop) (1877)
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
Carson McCullers, "A Domestic Dilemma" (1951)
V. DRINKING AND GENDER
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), from "Janet's Repentance" (1857)
Willa Cather, "On the Divide" (1896)
Jack London, from John Barleycorn (1913)
Brian Moore, from The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955)
VI. SPIRITS AND THE SPIRIT
Li Bo, "Drinking Alone by Moonlight" (8th century)
Emily Dickinson, "I taste a liquor never brewed" (1860)
William James, from The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Pablo Neruda, "Ode to Wine" (1954)
Simon Ortiz, "Woman Singing" (1969)
Naguib Mahfouz, "Blessed Night" (1991)
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