[PDF.50ox] The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction

The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction

[PDF.ht92] The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction

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 | #5694387 in Books |  Univ of Massachusetts Pr |  1994-10 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x6.25 x1.00l, | File type: PDF | 224 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| A sound analysis, placing key modernist writers in context|By A Customer|John W. Crowley deals competently with the historical shift in understandings of alcoholism, from the temperance-led view of moral deficit to the illness concept of the `alcoholism movement'. Whilst covering some of the same ground as Tom Dardis' s seminal work `The Thirsty Muse', this book neverthele| |"An engrossing account of several major American novels and their alcoholic writers. Crowley's account of Tender Is the Night and Appointment in Samarra are, by far, the best to date."―Tom Dardis, author of The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the

"There are no second acts in American lives". F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous pronouncement, an epitaph for his own foreshortened career, points to a pattern of imaginative blight common among writers of the Lost Generation. As John W. Crowley shows in this study, excessive drinking was a crucial influence on the frequently diminished fortunes of these writers. Indeed, the modernists - especially the men - were a decidedly drunken lot. Taking account of recent work by socia...

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