MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02030cam a2200397 i 4500
001 2013001343
003 DLC
005 20130626080221.0
008 130131t20132013maua b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2013001343
020 $a9781558499928 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a155849992X (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9781558499935 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a1558499938 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aHV5279$b.C37 2013
082 00 $a362.29/15750973$223
100 1 $aCannon, Eoin F.,$d1973-
245 14 $aThe saloon and the mission :$baddiction, conversion, and the politics of redemption in American culture /$cEoin F. Cannon.
264 1 $aAmherst :$bUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$c[2013]
264 4 $c©2013
300 $axv, 321 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 263-309) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : 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.
650 0 $aAlcoholism$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aAlcoholism$xTreatment$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aAlcoholics$xRehabilitation$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aTemperance in literature.
650 0 $aAlcoholism in literature.
650 0 $aRescue missions (Church work)$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aRecovery movement$zUnited States$xHistory.