The saloon and the mission
Cannon, Eoin F., 1973-
The saloon and the mission addiction, conversion, and the politics of redemption in American culture / [electronic resource] : Eoin F. Cannon. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (xv, 321 pages :) illustrations ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-309) and index.
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.
9781613762721 1613762720
Recovery movement--History.--United States
Rescue missions (Church work)--History.--United States
Alcoholism in literature.
Temperance in literature.
Alcoholics--Rehabilitation--History.--United States
Alcoholism--Treatment--History.--United States
Alcoholism--Social aspects--History.--United States
Electronic books.
HV5279 / .C37 2013
362.29/15750973
The saloon and the mission addiction, conversion, and the politics of redemption in American culture / [electronic resource] : Eoin F. Cannon. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (xv, 321 pages :) illustrations ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-309) and index.
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.
9781613762721 1613762720
Recovery movement--History.--United States
Rescue missions (Church work)--History.--United States
Alcoholism in literature.
Temperance in literature.
Alcoholics--Rehabilitation--History.--United States
Alcoholism--Treatment--History.--United States
Alcoholism--Social aspects--History.--United States
Electronic books.
HV5279 / .C37 2013
362.29/15750973