The Pub in Literature: England's Altered StateManchester University Press, 2000 - 294 pagina's Tracing the roles of the drinking house in literature from Chaucer's Tabard to Martin Amis' Black Cross, this study takes in Falstaff's Boars Head and the numerous inns and public houses of Dickens, along with lesser known works where the drinking place is central. |
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Pagina 135
... live in ' Beer Street ' was to live in a jovial , convivial , flourishing environ- ment . To live in ' Gin Lane ' was to live amid poverty , vice and disease . Arguments as to why the problem of excessive gin - drinking subsided centre ...
... live in ' Beer Street ' was to live in a jovial , convivial , flourishing environ- ment . To live in ' Gin Lane ' was to live amid poverty , vice and disease . Arguments as to why the problem of excessive gin - drinking subsided centre ...
Pagina 144
... lives are precarious , can only live for the present moment ; execution , as Matt of the Mint acknowledges , is ' what we must all come to'.40 Hence Act 2's opening Air is a drinking song , followed by one in praise of the easy money to ...
... lives are precarious , can only live for the present moment ; execution , as Matt of the Mint acknowledges , is ' what we must all come to'.40 Hence Act 2's opening Air is a drinking song , followed by one in praise of the easy money to ...
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... lives . It is the great nineteenth- century aim of self - improvement , a motive sometimes imposed from above by the middle classes , but also very much a part of certain sections of the working classes . This , I think , distinguishes ...
... lives . It is the great nineteenth- century aim of self - improvement , a motive sometimes imposed from above by the middle classes , but also very much a part of certain sections of the working classes . This , I think , distinguishes ...
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 1 |
Early doors | 18 |
The Falstaffian state | 45 |
Copyright | |
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