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Beyond The Pleasure Dome: Writing and Addiction from the Romantics
1994122307Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. 316 p. 24 cm. I figure and I table. Black cloth in pictorial dustjacket. <br/><br/>Articles by numerous authors on such topics as: Crime and Punishment; Theodore Roethke's poetry; addiction in Goldsmith's satires; opium smoking and the romantic imagination; Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano; six plays of Tennessee Williams; James Joyce and drunken Catholics; Faulkner's 'Controlled' Drinking; patterns of obsession in the work of Marguerite Duras; Sinclair Lewis; Kerouac alcohol and the Beat Movement; addiction in the work of Patrick Hamilton; heroin addiction and narrative in Alexander Trocchi's Cain's Book; William Golding's The Paper Men; 19th century American female authorship and the discourses of drink. Index. Sheffield Academic Press hardcover
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