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Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic
Matthew Warner Osborn
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Description for Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic
Hardcover. Reveals how and why pathological drinking became a subject of medical interest, social controversy, and lurid fascination in the early American republic. This book also reveals just how delirium tremens shaped the modern experience of alcohol addiction as a psychic struggle with inner demons. Num Pages: 280 pages, 18 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
Edgar Allan Poe vividly recalls standing in a prison cell, fearing for his life, as he watched men mutilate and dismember the body of his mother. That memory, however graphic and horrifying, was not real. It was a hallucination, one of many suffered by the writer, caused by his addiction to alcohol. In Rum Maniacs, Matthew Warner Osborn reveals how and why pathological drinking became a subject of medical interest, social controversy, and lurid fascination in the early American republic. At the heart of that story is the disease that Poe suffered: delirium tremens. First described in 1813, delirium tremens ... Read more
Edgar Allan Poe vividly recalls standing in a prison cell, fearing for his life, as he watched men mutilate and dismember the body of his mother. That memory, however graphic and horrifying, was not real. It was a hallucination, one of many suffered by the writer, caused by his addiction to alcohol. In Rum Maniacs, Matthew Warner Osborn reveals how and why pathological drinking became a subject of medical interest, social controversy, and lurid fascination in the early American republic. At the heart of that story is the disease that Poe suffered: delirium tremens. First described in 1813, delirium tremens ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226099897
SKU
V9780226099897
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About Matthew Warner Osborn
Matthew Warner Osborn is assistant professor of history at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Reviews for Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic
"In its detailed but wide-ranging attention to institutions, practices, theories, and aspirations shaping medical education, Rum Maniacs offers a sophisticated case study of the interplay of learned and popular cultures by which pathological drinking came to be imagined by nineteenth-century Americans." (Tom Augst, New York University)"