Beyond The Pleasure Dome: Writing and Addiction from the Romantics

Articles by numerous authors on such topics as: Crime and Punishment; Theodore Roethke's poetry; addiction in Goldsmith's satires; opium smoking and the romantic imagination; Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano; six plays of Tennessee Williams; James Joyce and drunken Catholics; Faulkner's 'Controlled' Drinking; patterns of obsession in the work of Marguerite Duras; Sinclair Lewis; Kerouac, alcohol and the Beat Movement; addiction in the work of Patrick Hamilton; heroin addiction and narrative in Alexander Trocchi's Cain's Book; William Golding's The Paper Men; 19th century American female authorship and the discourses of drink. Index.