TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cannon,Eoin F.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The saloon and the mission: addiction, conversion, and the politics of redemption in American culture 
SN  - 9781613762721
AV  - HV5279 .C37 2013
U1  - 362.29/15750973 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Amherst
PB  - University of Massachusetts Press
KW  - Recovery movement
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Rescue missions (Church work)
KW  - Alcoholism in literature
KW  - Temperance in literature
KW  - Alcoholics
KW  - Rehabilitation
KW  - Alcoholism
KW  - Treatment
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781613762721/
ER  -