The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction

The examination of the relationship between intoxication and addiction in American life and letters during the first half of the twentieth century. Crowley examines the transition from Victorian to modern paradigms of heavy drinking, focusing on representative fictions by W. D. Howells, Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John O'Hara, Djuna Barnes, and Charles Jackson.