Consuming Anxieties examines the varied representations of alcohol and tobacco products in literary satire from 1660-1751. Tracing the nuanced satirical treatments of these consumable items throughout the period, it considers understudied plays, poems, and essays alongside more canonical works, shedding light on critical responses to the rise of consumer culture.
Consuming Anxieties examines the varied representations of alcohol and tobacco products in literary satire from 1660-1751. Tracing the nuanced satirical treatments of these consumable items throughout the period, it considers understudied plays, poems, and essays alongside more canonical works, shedding light on critical responses to the rise of consumer culture.
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Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
Dayne C. Riley is the assistant director of the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at the University of Tulsa. He lives in Tulsa with his wife and dogs.
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List of Illustrations Introduction 1 “The Vice of the Time”: Wine, Libertinism, and Commerce in the Age of Charles II 2 Bottling Up Your Anger: Alehouse and Tavern Satire in Stuart England 3 Sot-Weed or Indian Weed?: Pipe Tobacco and Satire, 1689-1709 4 “The Ceremony of the Snuff-Box”: Snuff in British Satirical Essays and Poems, 1709-1732 5 English Satirical Writing in the Age of Mother Gin, 1723-1751 Epilogue: The Smoke of War and the Imperial Thirst Acknowledgments Bibliography Index List of Illustrations ix Introduction 1 1 “The Vice of the Time”: Wine, Libertinism, and Commerce in the Age of Charles II 12 2 Bottling Up Your Anger: Alehouse and Tavern Satire in Stuart England 36 3 Sot-Weed or Indian Weed? Pipe Tobacco and Satire, 1689–1709 65 4 “The Ceremony of the Snuff-Box”: Snuff in British Satirical Essays and Poems, 1709–1732 109 5 English Satirical Writing in the Age of Mother Gin, 1723–1751 137 Epilogue: The Smoke of War and the Imperial Thirst 177 Acknowledgments 181 Notes 183 Bibliography 195 Index 203
List of Illustrations Introduction 1 “The Vice of the Time”: Wine, Libertinism, and Commerce in the Age of Charles II 2 Bottling Up Your Anger: Alehouse and Tavern Satire in Stuart England 3 Sot-Weed or Indian Weed?: Pipe Tobacco and Satire, 1689-1709 4 “The Ceremony of the Snuff-Box”: Snuff in British Satirical Essays and Poems, 1709-1732 5 English Satirical Writing in the Age of Mother Gin, 1723-1751 Epilogue: The Smoke of War and the Imperial Thirst Acknowledgments Bibliography Index List of Illustrations ix Introduction 1 1 “The Vice of the Time”: Wine, Libertinism, and Commerce in the Age of Charles II 12 2 Bottling Up Your Anger: Alehouse and Tavern Satire in Stuart England 36 3 Sot-Weed or Indian Weed? Pipe Tobacco and Satire, 1689–1709 65 4 “The Ceremony of the Snuff-Box”: Snuff in British Satirical Essays and Poems, 1709–1732 109 5 English Satirical Writing in the Age of Mother Gin, 1723–1751 137 Epilogue: The Smoke of War and the Imperial Thirst 177 Acknowledgments 181 Notes 183 Bibliography 195 Index 203
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