Drunkard's Progress: Narratives of Addiction, Despair, and Recovery - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0801860083 ISBN 13 : 9780801860089

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999

Synopsis

"Twelve-step" recovery programmes for a variety of addictive behaviours have become popular. According to John W. Crowley, the origin of these movements - including Alcoholics Anonymous - lies in the Washingtonian Temperance Society, founded in Baltimore in the 1840s. In lectures, pamphlets and books (most notably John B. Gough's "Autobiography", published in 1845), recovering "drunkards" described their enslavement to and liberation from alcohol. Though widely circulated in their time, these influential temperance narratives seem to have been largely forgotten. This is a presentation of a collection of revealing excerpts from temperance texts, along with Crowley's own introductions. The tales, including "The Experience Meeting" from T.S. Arthur's "Six Nights with the Washingtonians" (1842) and the autobiographical "Narrative of Charles Woodman, A Reformed Inebriate" (1843), still speak with surprising force to the miseries of drunkenness and the joys of deliverance.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John W. Crowley is a professor of English and director of the Humanities Doctoral Program at Syracuse University, where he has taught since 1970. Best known as a scholar of William Dean Howells, he has written other works on alcohol-related topics, including the widely praised The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801860083
• ISBN 13: 9780801860089
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Éditeur: Crowley John W.
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