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)