Spirits of America : intoxication in nineteenth-century American 
literature / Nicholas O. Warner
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1997

1
Introduction: The Varieties of Intoxicated Experience
3

2
God's Wine and Devil's Wine: The Idea of Intoxication in Emerson
32

3
The Little Tippler's Discerning Eye: Dickinson and Visionary Drunkenness
50

4
Beyond the Sober Eye of Reason: Poe and the Paradoxes of Intoxication
67

5
The Gentleman's Part: Drinking and Moral Style in Cooper
94

6
 From Conviviality to Vision: Intoxication in Hawthorne
124

7
Too Sober or Too Drunken: Melville's Dialogics of Drink
155

8
Forbidden Fruit: Nineteenth-Century American Female Authorship and the 
Discourses of Intoxication
179

 
Conclusion
216

 
Notes
227

 
References
263

 
Index
285

xiii, 290 p.

ISBN
0806118733 (cloth : alk. paper)