A01=Dayne C. Riley
addiction
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Age Group_Uncategorized
alcohol
alcoholism
Ale
Alehouses
Alexander Pope
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Beer
Beer Street
Bernard Mandeville
Britain
British culture
British satire
British society
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Charles II
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Consumable
Consumer culture
Consumerism
Consumption
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Cultural studies
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Early modern culture
Ebenezer Cooke
Edward Ravenscroft
Eighteenth-century Britain
england
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Food and drink studies
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Gender studies
George Etherege
Gin
Gin Craze
Gin Lane
Henry Fielding
history
History of society
John Gay
John Wilmot
Jonathan Swift
Language_English
Lawrence Spooner
Libertine
Liquor
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long eighteenth century
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Ned Ward
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Pipe smoking
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Restoration
satire
Snuff
Snuffbox
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Stuart England
Taverns
taxes
tobacco
united kingdom
vice
William Hogarth
William Wycherley
Wine
Product details
- ISBN 9781684485314
- Weight: 313g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jun 2024
- Publisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries-a period of vast economic change-recognized that the global trade in alcohol and tobacco promised a brighter financial future for England, even as overindulgence at home posed serious moral pitfalls. This engaging and original study explores how literary satirists represented these consumables-and related anxieties about the changing nature of Britishness-in their work. Riley traces the satirical treatment of wine, beer, ale, gin, pipe tobacco, and snuff from the beginning of Charles II’s reign, through the boom in tobacco’s popularity, to the end of the Gin Craze in libertine poems and plays, anonymous verse, ballad operas, and the satire of canonical writers such as Gay, Pope, and Swift. Focusing on social concerns about class, race, and gender, Consuming Anxieties examines how satirists championed Britain’s economic strength on the world stage while critiquing the effects of consumable luxuries on the British body and consciousness.
DAYNE C. RILEY is the assistant director of the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at the University of Tulsa. He lives in Tulsa with his wife and dogs.
