The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction

by John William Crowley

Book Overview

The first extended literary analysis to take account of recent work by social historians on the temperance movement, this book examines the relationship between intoxication and addiction in American life and letters during the first half of the twentieth century. In explaining the transition from Victorian to modern paradigms of heavy drinking, Crowley focuses on representative fictions by W. D. Howells (The Landlord at Lion's Head), Jack...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870239449
• ISBN13: 9780870239441
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"