The Saloon and the Mission : Addiction, Conversion, and the Politics of Redemption in American Culture.
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- computer
- online resource
- 9781613762721
- 362.2915750973
- HV5279.C37 2013
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Addiction Recovery and the World as it should be -- Part I: Redemption and Ideology -- 1. The Drunkard's Conversion and the Salvation of the Social Order -- 2. "What a Radical Found in Water Street" -- 3. The Varieties of Conversion Polemic -- 4. New Deal Individualism and the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous -- Part II: Literature and Recovery -- 5. Literary Realism and the Secularization of the Drunkard's Conversion -- 6. The Drinker's Epiphany in Modernist Literature -- 7. The Iceman Cometh and the Drama of Disillusion -- 8. Recovery Memoir and the Crack-Up of Liberalism -- Conclusion: Addiction in a New Era of Recovery -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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