Dayne C. Riley

Consuming Anxieties

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751

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Produktbeschreibung

Consuming Anxieties examines the varied representations of alcohol and tobacco products in literary satire from 1660-1751. Tracing the nuanced satirical treatments of these consumable items throughout the period, it considers understudied plays, poems, and essays alongside more canonical works, shedding light on critical responses to the rise of consumer culture.

Produktdetails

• Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9781684485314
• ISBN-10: 1684485312
• Artikelnr.: 69239576

Autorenporträt

DAYNE C. RILEY is the assistant director of the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at the University of Tulsa. He lives in Tulsa with his wife and dogs.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction
1          "The Vice of the Time": Wine, Libertinism, and Commerce in the
Age of Charles II
2          Bottling Up Your Anger: Alehouse and Tavern Satire in Stuart
England
3          Sot-Weed or Indian Weed?: Pipe Tobacco and Satire, 1689-1709
4          "The Ceremony of the Snuff-Box": Snuff in British Satirical
Essays and Poems, 1709-1732
5          English Satirical Writing in the Age of Mother Gin, 1723-1751
Epilogue: The Smoke of War and the Imperial Thirst
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index