What is a hangover? How does it feel to suffer from one? What can hangovers tell us about the way attitudes to alcohol have developed over time? This book sets out to answer these questions and many others by examining 'hangover literature' from the...
more
What is a hangover? How does it feel to suffer from one? What can hangovers tell us about the way attitudes to alcohol have developed over time? This book sets out to answer these questions and many others by examining 'hangover literature' from the Renaissance to the present day. Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Isolating, Placing and Contextualising the Hangover -- 2. 'The Nausea of Sin': The Early Modern Hangover -- 3. 'Baneful to Public and to Private Good': Hours of Illness and Idleness in the Long Eighteenth Century -- 4. Odes to Dejection: Romanticism and the Melancholy of Self-knowledge -- 5. Moral Sensitivity and the Mind: Tired and Emotional Victorians -- 6. The Hangover and the Outsider: Self-fashioning, Shame and Defiance in Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century Fiction -- Bibliography -- Index.
