The saloon and the mission [electronic resource] : addiction, conversion, and the politics of redemption in American culture / Eoin F. Cannon.
Material type: TextPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xv, 321 pages :) illustrationsISBN:- 9781613762721
- 1613762720
- Recovery movement -- United States -- History
- Rescue missions (Church work) -- United States -- History
- Alcoholism in literature
- Temperance in literature
- Alcoholics -- Rehabilitation -- United States -- History
- Alcoholism -- Treatment -- United States -- History
- Alcoholism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- 362.29/15750973 23
- HV5279 .C37 2013
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.
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