TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cannon,Eoin F.
TI  - The Saloon and the Mission: Addiction, Conversion, and the Politics of Redemption in American Culture
SN  - 9781613762721
AV  - HV5279.C37 2013 
U1  - 362.2915750973 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Amherst
PB  - University of Massachusetts Press
KW  - Alcoholism--Social aspects--United States--History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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