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Literature and Intoxication

Writing, Politics and the Experience of Excess

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Editors:
  1. Eugene Brennan

    1. Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France

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  2. Russell Williams

    1. American University of Paris, France

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Writing, Politics and the Experience of Excess

    1. Introduction: Writing, Politics and the Experience of Excess

      • Eugene Brennan, Russell Williams
      Pages 1-21

  5. Dipsomaniacal Novelists

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. Tipsiness and ‘the Reigning Stupefaction’ in the British Fiction of the Late 1940s

      • Joe Kennedy
      Pages 119-129

    3. ‘Drink, She Said’: Around the World of Durassian Alcohol

      • Anne-Lucile Gérardot
      Pages 130-144

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 203-209
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About this book

This collection traces the intersection between writing and intoxication, from the literary to the theoretical, exploring a diversity of experiences of excess. Comprising a variety of perspectives, this book offers unique insights into how politics and literature have been shaped by states of intoxication.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France

    Eugene Brennan

  • American University of Paris, France

    Russell Williams

About the editors

Eugene Brennan, Université Paris 13, France Alessandro Cabiati, University of Edinburgh, UK Christopher Collier, University of Essex, UK Joanna Figiel, City University London, UK Anne-Lucile Gérardot, University of Reims, France Alastair Hemmens, Cardiff University, UK Andrew Hussey, University of London, UK Mike Jay, independent scholar, UK Joe Kennedy, University of Sussex, UK Benjamin Noys, University of Chichester, UK Matthieu Perrot, University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France Joshua Rivas, Princeton University, USA Russell Williams, American University of Paris, France

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