ArialSpirits of America : intoxication in nineteenth-century American literature / Nicholas O. WarnerArial 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)