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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 39–66.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Jeffrey R. Wilson Abstract Claudius likes to party—a bit too much. He frequently binge drinks, is arguably an alcoholic, but is not an aberration. Hamlet says that Denmark is internationally known for heavy drinking. That’s what Shakespeare would have heard in the sixteenth century...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 139–149.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... Moreover, his technique enlists readers as “drinking buddies” and provides an entrée into the culture of alcohol. Despite the macho image that Hemingway himself helped construct and deploy, his work invites women into the scene and, indeed, centralizes a key figure often overlooked in the history of modern...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 150–163.
Published: 01 April 2022
... vocation, having become what he does in a world where professional butlers revere their station and its duties. Unlike external addictions, like drugs or alcohol, devotional addictions cultivate and ultimately constitute a self in ways resistant to changing course at will. In the case of Stevens, the self...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 16–38.
Published: 01 April 2022
... a capacious concept of drunkard as someone who simply liked drinking, rather than became demonstrably drunk, and confirmed the consumption of tobacco and alcohol as an appropriate subject for the burgeoning printed “public sphere.” The article suggests that the separation of drunkard from drunkenness proved...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 164–182.
Published: 01 April 2022
... . 79 Wakefield and Schmitz, “How Many People Have Alcohol Use Disorders?” 80 Pai, Vella, and Richardson, “Is Food Addiction a Valid Phenomenon through the Lens of the DSM-5?” 81 American Psychiatric Association, DSM-V , 329 . [email protected] [email protected]...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 April 2022
... this phenomenon of addiction. While earlier editions of the DSM included alcoholism and compulsive disorders under the mantle of addiction, the most recent issue forgoes the notion of substance dependency and the category of addiction. 10 Instead, as Sussman and Wright discuss, it classifies substance use...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 67–81.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., “ Doctor Faustus and the Early Modern Language of Addiction.” 5 Lemon, “Scholarly Addiction” ; Lemon, Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England . 6 Cree, “Protestant Evangelicals and Addiction in Early Modern English,” 446 . 7 See also Cook, Alcohol, Addiction...
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 11–22.
Published: 01 September 2011
... sober as far as alcohol. A: A funny comment. S:The other stuff breeds rationality. You don't lose rationality like people do w ith alcohol. J:Yet you'd mentioned earlier today that this young man offered you a pill . . . E n g l is h L a n g u a g e N o t e s 4 9 .2 (1) f a l l / W in t e r 201 1 S: He...
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (4): 49–52.
Published: 01 June 2001
... West End busi ness had its roots in profits m ade o u t of lost souls, from goods often stolen and then pawned by desperate men and women, victims of alcohol and poverty, patrons o f Mr. D unkirk s ginshop. Bulstrode becomes a partner in this business and inherits from his first wife, D unkirk s...
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (3): 89–93.
Published: 01 March 2001
... Exclusion Crisis o f 1682. M ore explicitly, Julia Epstein powerfully connects the widely-held eighteenthcentury belief that women could turn their fetuses into m on sters by simply looking at distressing sights to recent legal con troversies over th e crim es o f alcoholic o r d ru g -ad d icted m...
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English Language Notes (2004) 41 (4): 74–80.
Published: 01 June 2004
... herefore, any evil or crim inal behavior in plays, such as alcoholism, prostitution, or female independence, threatened to go against a natural, pre-ordained order, and, if the play were allowed to continue, could corrupt society. Plays in which prostitutes died at the end after a long period of suffering...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 122–138.
Published: 01 April 2022
... the user, an idea that took hold in nineteenth-century English political discourse. The idea clearly borrowed from the temperance and teetotal movements, which often warned that the first sip of alcohol could suddenly and completely “enslave” its consumer. And it was strikingly similar to the theory...
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English Language Notes (2002) 40 (1): 77–85.
Published: 01 September 2002
... purity Nazi Germany sterilized nearly 400,000 people for supposed single-gene diseases like alcoholism, feeblemindedness, and schizophrenia. What has been conveniently forgotten is that more than 60,000 court-ordered sterilizations for eugenic rea sons were carried out in the United States...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 191–197.
Published: 01 March 2006
... the power of the poor, the downtrodden, and the uneducated to com m une w ith the divine.They also recognize sin not as personal, but as comm unal, located in systemic sources of oppression: pover ty, alcoholism, drug addiction, sexism, unemployment, and capitalist greed. Further, in "Little M iracles...
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (3): 70–78.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., one recalls, kept vigil at T hom as s d eathbed), Thom as may seem a p o et quite of another time, or a poet awkwardly in between M odernism and Post-Modernism, a figure of a transitional period but not him self a transitional figure. In short, Beat and Confessional poems on alcoholism, physi cal...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (2): 133–139.
Published: 01 September 2007
... mother, passive father, and alcoholic but accepting sister. That night,Toby tries to seduce Bree, then strikes her and runs away when he learns the truth; the tw o arrive separately at the ir com m on destination and achieve their respective goals: personal transform ation, sur gery, and film acting.The...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 149–166.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and despite fou r years o f m oderately high alcohol consumption combined w ith regular ingestion of illegal sub stances (procured by Laird, who maintained connections w ith illegal commerce not only in Hudson and Albany, but also in Manhattan and the four boroughs), scores in the hundredth percentile had...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 11–20.
Published: 01 April 2019
... another avenue for assaying a publication; an offending jacket sufficed to have the object banned or burned. In other instances officials followed a sampling method in which random passages from suspect texts were selected, rather like an excise man testing a consignment of alcohol. 24 As already...
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (3): 92–100.
Published: 01 March 2002
... experience the frequency of his attendance at public hangings, the sickness 96 English Language Notes of the re c u rren t cycles o f debauchery, alcoholic stupor, and domestic violence which increasingly took over his life. Occa sionally, the biographer allows him self a concisely acid com m ent...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 33–40.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Schopenhauer pointed this out over a hundred and fifty years ago. "In order to heighten his pleasure, man deliberately increases his needs, which were originally only a little more d iffic u lt to satisfy than those of the animal; hence luxury, delicacies, tobacco, opium, alcoholic liquors, pomp, display...
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