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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press
ISBN-100807841749
ISBN-139780807841747
eBay Product ID (ePID)1282308
Product Key Features
Book TitleEquivocal Spirits : Alcoholism and Drinking in Twentieth-Century Literature
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Psychopathology / Addiction
Publication Year1987
FeaturesNew Edition
GenreLiterary Criticism, Psychology
AuthorThomas B. Gilmore
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight11.7 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN86-019355
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal810/.9/355
Edition DescriptionNew Edition
SynopsisUNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value., This first full-length study of drinking as it is depicted in literature is an interdisciplinary study of science and literature which explores the ways in which the scientific knowledge of alcoholism may enlighten the reader as well as the means by which literature may confirm, intensify, dramatize, extend, and occasionally even challenge empirical studies. Gilmore shows that literature conveys the complex struggle in an alcoholic fictional character or a real person in a way that science cannot.Originally published in 1987.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value., This first full-length study of drinking as it is depicted in literature is an interdisciplinary study of science and literature which explores the ways in which the scientific knowledge of alcoholism may enlighten the reader as well as the means by which literature may confirm, intensify, dramatize, extend, and occasionally even challenge empirical studies. Gilmore shows that literature conveys the complex struggle in an alcoholic fictional character or a real person in a way that science cannot. Originally published in 1987. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.