The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction

By John William Crowley

Book Overview

There are no second acts in American lives. F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous pronouncement, an epitaph for his own foreshortened career, points to a pattern of imaginative blight common among writers of the Lost Generation. As John W. Crowley shows in this study, excessive drinking was a crucial influence on the frequently diminished fortunes of these writers. Indeed, the modernists - especially the men - were a decidedly drunken lot.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870239317
• ISBN13: 9780870239311
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"