Consuming Anxieties
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751
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2024
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-532-1 (ISBN)
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-532-1 (ISBN)
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.
Writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries—a period of vast economic change—recognized that the global trade in alcohol and tobacco promised a brighter financial future for England, even as overindulgence at home posed serious moral pitfalls. This engaging and original study explores how literary satirists represented these consumables—and related anxieties about the changing nature of Britishness—in their work. Riley traces the satirical treatment of wine, beer, ale, gin, pipe tobacco, and snuff from the beginning of Charles II’s reign, through the boom in tobacco’s popularity, to the end of the Gin Craze in libertine poems and plays, anonymous verse, ballad operas, and the satire of canonical writers such as Gay, Pope, and Swift. Focusing on social concerns about class, race, and gender, Consuming Anxieties examines how satirists championed Britain’s economic strength on the world stage while critiquing the effects of consumable luxuries on the British body and consciousness.
Writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries—a period of vast economic change—recognized that the global trade in alcohol and tobacco promised a brighter financial future for England, even as overindulgence at home posed serious moral pitfalls. This engaging and original study explores how literary satirists represented these consumables—and related anxieties about the changing nature of Britishness—in their work. Riley traces the satirical treatment of wine, beer, ale, gin, pipe tobacco, and snuff from the beginning of Charles II’s reign, through the boom in tobacco’s popularity, to the end of the Gin Craze in libertine poems and plays, anonymous verse, ballad operas, and the satire of canonical writers such as Gay, Pope, and Swift. Focusing on social concerns about class, race, and gender, Consuming Anxieties examines how satirists championed Britain’s economic strength on the world stage while critiquing the effects of consumable luxuries on the British body and consciousness.
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.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 B-W & 3 color images |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 68 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-68448-532-0 / 1684485320 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-68448-532-1 / 9781684485321 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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