{"product_id":"dead-drunk-tales-of-intoxication-and-demon-drinks-9780712354097","title":"Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuddenly 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... \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Featuring drink-fueled classics such as Robert Louis Stevenson's 'The Body Snatcher' alongside obscurities from periodicals such as \u003ci\u003eBlackwood's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePam Lock\u003c\/b\u003e 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\"'.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"British Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50631958855954,"sku":"9780712354097","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_69f59f21-3058-4c0b-b213-d9dbe3e8e5f3.jpg?v=1732786890","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dead-drunk-tales-of-intoxication-and-demon-drinks-9780712354097","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}