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Bacchus in Romantic England - Writers and Drink 1780-1830 (Hardcover)
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Bacchus in Romantic England - Writers and Drink 1780-1830 (Hardcover)
Series: Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories
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Bacchus in Romantic England describes real drunkenness among
writers and ordinary people in the Romantic age. It grounds this
'reality' in writings by doctors and philanthropists from 1780
onwards, who describe an epidemic of drunkenness. These
commentators provide a context for the different ways that poets
and novelists of the age represent drunkards. Wordsworth writes
poems and essays evaluating the drunken career of his model Robert
Burns. Charles Lamb's essays and letters reveal a real and
metaphorical preoccupation with his own drinking as a way of
disguising his personal suffering; his companion Coleridge writes
drinking songs, essays about drunkenness, and meditations about his
own weakness of will that show both festive inebriety and
consciousness of an inward abyss; Coleridge's son Hartley, whose
fate his father had prophesied, experiences drunkenness as the
life-long humiliation described in his poems and letters. Keats's
complex dionysianism runs through 'Endymion' and the late odes,
setting him at odds with his temperate hero Milton. Men in the
Romantic age, such as Sheridan, Byron, Moor, and Clare, celebrate
rowdy friendship with tales and songs of drinking; Romantic women
novelists such as Smith, Edgeworth and Wollstonecraft depict these
men stumbling home to abuse their wives. Although excessive
drinking is real in the period, observers and participants can
still maintain ambivalence about its power to release or to debase
the human being.
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