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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.
Sommario
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
Info autore
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.
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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.
