Author: Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9781422361252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Library Company of Philadelphia: 1992 Annual Report
Author: Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9781422361252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Library Company of Philadelphia: 1991 Annual Report
Author: Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9781422361245
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Library Company of Philadelphia: 1990 Annual Report
Author: Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9781422361238
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Library Company of Philadelphia: 1997 Annual Report
Author: Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9781422373095
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Library Company of Philadelphia: 1994 Annual Report
Author: Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9781422361276
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Library Company of Philadelphia: 1995 Annual Report
Author: Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9781422361283
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Library Company of Philadelphia: 1993 Annual Report
Author: Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9781422361269
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Library Company of Philadelphia: 2003 Annual Report
Author: Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9781422359280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Library Company of Philadelphia: 2001 Annual Report
Author: Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9781422373132
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Rum Maniacs
Author: Matthew Warner OsbornPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022609992X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
"This important study explores the medicalization of alcohol abuse in the 19th century US” and its influence on American literature and popular culture (Choice). In Rum Maniacs, Matthew Warner Osborn examines the rise of pathological drinking as a subject of medical interest, social controversy, and lurid fascination in 19th century America. At the heart of that story is the disease that afflicted Edgar Allen Poe: delirium tremens. Poe’s alcohol addiction was so severe that it gave him hallucinations, such as his vivid recollection of standing in a prison cell, fearing for his life, as he watched men mutilate his mother’s body—an event that never happened. First described in 1813, delirium tremens and its characteristic hallucinations inspired sweeping changes in how the medical profession saw and treated the problems of alcohol abuse. Based on new theories of pathological anatomy, human physiology, and mental illness, the new diagnosis established the popular belief that habitual drinking could become a psychological and physiological disease. By midcentury, delirium tremens had inspired a wide range of popular theater, poetry, fiction, and illustration. This romantic fascination endured into the twentieth century, most notably in the classic Disney cartoon Dumbo, in which a pink pachyderm marching band haunts a drunken young elephant. Rum Maniacs reveals just how delirium tremens shaped the modern experience of alcohol addiction as a psychic struggle with inner demons.