Equivocal spirits : alcoholism and drinking in twentieth-century literature

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Equivocal spirits : alcoholism and drinking in twentieth-century literature

Title remainder

alcoholism and drinking in twentieth-century literature

Statement of responsibility

Thomas B. Gilmore

Creator

• Gilmore, Thomas B

Subject

• Consommation d'alcool dans la littérature
• O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953
• Alcoholism in literature
• Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Alcoholism in literature
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott, (Francis Scott), 1896-1940
• English fiction
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957
• Alcoolisme dans la littérature
• Alcooliques dans la littérature
• Cheever, John -- Criticism and interpretation
• Amis, Kingsley -- Criticism and interpretation
• Berryman, John, 1914-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation
• English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Cheever, John
• Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Amis, Kingsley
• Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature
• Orwell, George, 1903-1950
• American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Alcoholics in literature
• Drinking customs in literature
• Bellow, Saul
• Berryman, John, 1914-1972
• Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature
• Alcoholics in literature
• Alcoholism
• 1900 - 1999
• Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966
• O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Littérature américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
• American literature
• Bellow, Saul -- Criticism and interpretation
• Roman anglais -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
• Literature
• Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott, (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Drinking customs in literature

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Of the eight American Nobel Prize winners in literature, three--Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill and William Faulkner--were alcoholic drinkers, and two--Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck--were hard drinkers. Almost all critical comment about these writers has treated their drinking habits a somehow separate from their work. Thomas Gilmore argues that the result is neither good biography nor good literary criticism. He shows how the drinking and the work can each shed light on the other. Although readers and critics acknowledge that many modern writers tend to be heavy drinkers, [title] is the first full-length study of drinking as it is depicted in literature, both by writers who have had drinking problems and those who have not. This interdisciplinary study of science and literature explores the ways scientific knowledge of alcoholism may enlighten the reader as well as the means by which literature may confirm, intensify, dramatize, extend, and occasionally even challenge empirical studies. Examining the work of Malcom Lowry, Evelyn Waugh, Eugene O'Neill, John Cheever, Saul BEllow, F. Scot Fitzgerald, John Berryman, Kingsley Amis, and George Orwell, Gilmore evaluates the major genres of modern literature--drama, poetry, the short story, the novel--for the distinctive portrayals of drinking or alcoholism. He argues that good literature resists stereotyping the alcoholic and portrays instead a figure divided into a welter of conflicting feelings. Gilmore shows that literature conveys the complex struggle in a fictional character or in a real person in a way that science--which must be diagnostic, analytical, and objective--cannot."--Cover [p. 4]

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

810/.9/355

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PS228.A58

LC item number

G55 1987

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

WM 274

NLM item number

G488e 1987