The existential drinker

The existential drinker / Steven Earnshaw.

Drinking to excess has been a striking problem for industrial and post-industrial societies - who is responsible when an individual opts for a slow suicide? The causes of such drinking have often been blamed on genes, moral weakness, 'disease' (addiction), hedonism, and Romantic illusion....

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Main Author: Earnshaw, Steven (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
1800-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Drinking in literature.
Existentialism in literature.
Existentialism.
Alcoholics.
Alcohol > Physiological effect.
Metaphysics.
existentialism.
alcoholics.
metaphysics.
PHILOSOPHY > Criticism.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Critical Theory.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Existentialism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Existentialism in literature
English literature
Drinking in literature
Alcohol > Physiological effect
Alcoholics
Existentialism
Metaphysics
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front matter; Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I Whiffs and gleams; Habitual drunkards and metaphysics: case studies from the Victorian period; Jack London, John Barleycorn (1913): truth; II The Existential drinkers; Jean Rhys and drunken consciousness (1929-1939); Charles Jackson, The Lost Weekend (1944): life projects; Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano (1947): singular experiences; Hans Fallada, The Drinker (1950): absurdity; Brian Moore, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955): abandonment
  • Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes (1968): authenticityVenedikt Yerofeev, Moscow-Petushki (1970): self and others; III Enough: attic, Vegas, paradise; William Kennedy, Ironweed (1983): fugitive souls and free spirits; John O'Brien, Leaving Las Vegas (1990): suicide; A.L. Kennedy, Paradise (2004): love; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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