Steven Earnshaw

The Existential drinker (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Looks at the nineteenth-century convergence of a new kind of excessive, habitual drinking, and a new way of thinking about the self, which we came to label 'existential'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526134721
• Artikelnr.: 55007213

Autorenporträt

Steven Earnshaw is Professor of English Literature at Sheffield Hallam University

Inhaltsangabe

I Whiffs and gleams 1 Habitual drunkards and metaphysics: case studies from the Victorian period 2 Jack London
John Barleycorn (1913): truth II The Existential drinkers 3 Jean Rhys and drunken consciousness (1929-1939) 4 Charles Jackson
The Lost Weekend (1944): life projects 5 Malcolm Lowry
Under the Volcano (1947).: singular experiences 6 Hans Fallada
The Drinker (1950): absurdity 7 Brian Moore
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955): abandonment 8 Frederick Exley
A Fan's Notes (1968): authenticity 9 Venedikt Yerofeev
Moscow-Petushki (1970): self and others III Enough: attic
Vegas
paradise 10 William Kennedy
Ironweed (1983): fugitive souls and free spirits 11 John O'Brien
Leaving Las Vegas (1990): suicide 12 A. L. Kennedy
Paradise (2004): love Conclusion Bibliography