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Bacchus in Romantic England: Writers and Drink 1780-1830 (Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories)
by A. Taylor
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- Hardcover
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- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0333725212
- ISBN 13
- 9780333725214
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E-014: Palgrave Macmillan. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Palgrave Macmillan. 1999. 264 pages. Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. The DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ. No ownership marks present. The text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards have light shelf wear present. Bacchus in Romantic England describes real drunkenness among writers and ordinary people in the Romantic age. It grounds this 'reality' in writings by doctors and philanthropists from 1780 onwards, who describe an epidemic of drunkenness. These commentators provide a context for the different ways that poets and novelists of the age represent drunkards. Wordsworth writes poems and essays evaluating the drunken career of his model Robert Burns. Charles Lamb's essays and letters reveal a real and metaphorical preoccupation with his own drinking as a way of disguising his personal suffering; his companion Coleridge writes drinking songs, essays about drunkenness, and meditations about his own weakness of will that show both festive inebriety and consciousness of an inward abyss; Coleridge's son Hartley, whose fate his father had prophesied, experiences drunkenness as the life-long humiliation described in his poems and letters. Keats's complex dionysianism runs through 'Endymion' and the late odes, setting him at odds with his temperate hero Milton. Men in the Romantic age, such as Sheridan, Byron, Moor, and Clare, celebrate rowdy friendship with tales and songs of drinking; Romantic women novelists such as Smith, Edgeworth and Wollstonecraft depict these men stumbling home to abuse their wives. Although excessive drinking is real in the period, observers and participants can still maintain ambivalence about its power to release or to debase the human being. E-014; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Last Exit Books (US)
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- Title
- Bacchus in Romantic England: Writers and Drink 1780-1830 (Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories)
- Author
- A. Taylor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0333725212
- ISBN 13
- 9780333725214
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- E-014
- Date Published
- 1998
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