Reading alcoholisms
Subtitle: theorizing character and narrative in selected novels of Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf
By: Jane Lilienfeld
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780312217099
Subjects: Alcoholisme; Alcoholics in literature; Consommation d'alcool dans la littérature; Modern Literature; Alcooliques dans la littérature; Alcoholgebruik; Alcoolisme dans la littérature; Characters and characteristics in literature; Alcoholism; History; Personnages dans la littérature; Alcoholism in literature; Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature; Alkoholismus; History and criticism; Histoire et critique; Roman anglais; Alcohol Drinking; Narration (Rhetoric); English fiction; Narration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ([257]-280 p.) and index.
Table of contents: title: "An Altar to Disease in Years Gone By": Alcoholism in The Mayor of Casterbridge; title: The "Great Stone Jar": The Art of Escape in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; title: "The Horrors of Family Life": A Feminist Interrogation of the Politics of Codependence in To the Lighthouse.