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Dead Drunk

Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks

Pam Lock

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English
British Library
02 January 2024
Suddenly he tripped and fell his length over a prostrate body... he marvelled that so rough an impact should not have kicked a groan out of the drunkard...

With a stiff measure of the supernatural, a dram of melodrama and a chaser of the cautionary kind, tales of drink and drunkenness can be found in a well- stocked cabinet of Victorian and early twentieth-century fiction, reflecting an anxiety about the impact of alcohol and intoxicants in society, as well as an acknowledgment of their influence on humans' perception of reality.

Featuring drink-fuelled classics such as Robert Louis Stevenson's 'The Body Snatcher' alongside obscurities from periodicals such as Blackwood's Magazine, this new collection offers a (somewhat poisoned) chalice of dark and stormy short fiction, brimming with the weird, the grotesque, the entertaining and the outlandish.
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Imprint:   British Library
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   41
Dimensions:   Height: 190mm,  Width: 130mm, 
ISBN:   9780712354097
ISBN 10:   0712354093
Series:   British Library Tales of the Weird
Pages:   288
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

"Pam Lock is a Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Bristol. Her monograph, based on her thesis, 'Low Spirits: The Habitual Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture' (2019) will be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2023. Pam is a co-Director of the Drinking Studies Network and co-Lead with Dr Dorota Dias-Lewandowska for the NCN funded project, 'Between the drunken ""mother of destruction"" and the sober ""angel of the house""'."

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