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Post by helrunar on Dec 27, 2023 3:04:05 GMT
I thought this one deserved its own thread on Vault: Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drink, edited by Pam Lock, published by the British Library this past September. The blurb:
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.
Featuring drink-fuelled classics such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Body Snatcher’ alongside obscurities from periodicals such as Blackwood’s Magazine, 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.
I don't have time to type out the t.o.c. from a screenshot on a website, but the authors include Cruikshank, Amelia B. Edwards, Wilkie Collins, Rhoda Broughton, William Aytoun, and it all finishes off with Lord Byron's "Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed from a Skull."
Wassail, wassail!
Hel.
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Post by dem on Dec 27, 2023 14:09:19 GMT
... here is the ToC for Pam Lock (ed.) - Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks:
Robert Louis Stevenson - The Body-Snatcher
Anthony Trollope - The Spotted Dog
E. E. L. - Kitty's Dream and Its Return
George Cruikshank - The Bottle
_______________ - The Drunkard's Children
Wilkie Collins - The Ostler
Amelia B. Edwards - An Engineer's Story
Rhoda Broughton - Under the Cloak
William Aytoun - How We Got up the Glenmutchkin Railway
James White - The Barber's Supper
Rudyard Kipling - The Mark of the Beast
Lord Byron - Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull [verse]George Cruikshank's works are etchings, if I'm not mistaken. |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 27, 2023 15:07:50 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Dec 27, 2023 20:07:28 GMT
Thanks, Demonik and Princess, for the scan and the links!
cheers, Hel.
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