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The White Logic : Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction
author
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Crowley, John William.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870239449
print isbn13
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9780870239441
ebook isbn13
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9780585083315
language
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English
subject
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Alcoholism--United States--History--20th century, Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature, Authors, American--20th century--Alcohol use, Modernism (Literature)--United States, Alcoholics--United
publication date
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1994
lcc
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PS374.A42C76 1994eb
ddc
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813/.509356
subject
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American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Alcoholism--United States--History--20th century, Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature, Authors, American--20th century--Alcohol use, Modernism (Literature)--United States, Alcoholics--United
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The White Logic
Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction
John W. Crowley
University of Massachusetts Press Amherst
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Copyright 1994 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
LC 94-14809 ISBN 0-87023-931-7 Designed by Teresa Bonner Set in Adobe Caslon and Bitstream Cheltenham by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Crowley, John William, 1945 The white logic : alcoholism and gender in American modernist fiction / John W. Crowley. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87023-931-7 1. American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. AlcoholismUnited StatesHistory20th century. 3. Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature. 4. Authors, American20th centuryAlcohol use. 5. Modernism (Literature)United States. 6. AlcoholicsUnited StatesBiography. 7. Drinking customs in literature. 8. Alcoholism in literature. 9. Alcoholics in literature. 10. Sex role in literature. 1. Title. PS374-A42C76 1994 813'.509356dc2094-14809 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
Page v
For Mary Anne, who led the way
Page vi
"The old long sickness, which had been purely an intellectual sickness, recrudesced. The old ghosts, long laid, lifted their heads again. But they were different and more deadly ghosts. The old ghosts, intellectual in their inception, had been laid by a sane and normal logic. But now they were raised by the White Logic of John Barleycorn, and John Barleycorn never lays the ghosts of his raising. For this sickness of pessimism, caused by drink, one must drink further in quest of the anodyne that John Barleycorn promises but never delivers." Jack London, John Barleycorn
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Contents
Preface
ix
1 From Intemperance to Alcoholism in the Fiction of W. D. Howells
1
2 Memoirs of an Alcoholic: John Barleycorn
19
3 Bulls, Balls, and Booze: The Sun Also Rises
43
4 The Drunkard's Holiday: Tender Is the Night
65
5 The Infernal Grove: Appointment in Samarra
91
6 Transcendence Downward: Nightwood
115
7 After the Lost Generation: The Lost Weekend
135
Notes
159
Index
195
Page ix
Preface
"There are no second acts in American lives." F. Scott Fitzgerald's grim pronouncement has often been cited by those who try to account for the depressing frequency of attenuated careers and imaginative diminution among the American modernists. Budd Schulberg, for instance, ponders the all-too-representative case of Ernest Hemingway: "When a man can write no better, think no better, know no more, after he is thirty-five than before, especially a man with the unique artistic equipment of Hemingway, are we not entitled, even obligated, again to ask, why? What happened?" For Schulberg, an erstwhile Marxist, the answer must lie in the noxious culture of American capitalism. The decline of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and others can be attributed, he believes, to the cult of the bitch goddess, Success, to whom American writers have ritually been sacrificedhyped and then destroyed by the engines of publicity.
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