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OverviewWriters 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dayne C. RileyPublisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S. Imprint: Bucknell University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.068kg ISBN: 9781684485321ISBN 10: 1684485320 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 14 June 2024 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1 “The Vice of the Time”: Wine, Libertinism, and Commerce in the Age of Charles II 2 Bottling Up Your Anger: Alehouse and Tavern Satire in Stuart England 3 Sot-Weed or Indian Weed?: Pipe Tobacco and Satire, 1689-1709 4 “The Ceremony of the Snuff-Box”: Snuff in British Satirical Essays and Poems, 1709-1732 5 English Satirical Writing in the Age of Mother Gin, 1723-1751 Epilogue: The Smoke of War and the Imperial Thirst Acknowledgments Bibliography Index List of Illustrations ix Introduction 1 1 “The Vice of the Time”: Wine, Libertinism, and Commerce in the Age of Charles II 12 2 Bottling Up Your Anger: Alehouse and Tavern Satire in Stuart England 36 3 Sot-Weed or Indian Weed? Pipe Tobacco and Satire, 1689–1709 65 4 “The Ceremony of the Snuff-Box”: Snuff in British Satirical Essays and Poems, 1709–1732 109 5 English Satirical Writing in the Age of Mother Gin, 1723–1751 137 Epilogue: The Smoke of War and the Imperial Thirst 177 Acknowledgments 181 Notes 183 Bibliography 195 Index 203Reviews“In this valuable and engaging study of both canonical and less-studied Restoration and early eighteenth-century satires on wine, beer, gin, pipe tobacco, and snuff, Dayne Riley examines the influences—both good and ill—of global commerce and trade upon national character, social class, manners, and morality. You will never look at a glass of wine or a dram of gin in a literary text the same way.” -- Linda Troost * coeditor of Jane Austen in Hollywood * “A fascinating examination of the ways in which Restoration and early-eighteenth-century satirists used wine, gin, and tobacco to attack the evils of the day, from the unequivocal sins of lust and gluttony to the murky dangers of foreign trade and consumer culture. Surveying a wide range of genres and their contexts, Riley ably demonstrates how alcohol and tobacco became central to this period's concerns over the health of the body natural and the body politic.” -- Noelle Gallagher * author of Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination * “A fascinating history of alcohol and tobacco as commercial enterprises through the lens of satire. Riley advances insightful readings while tracing a development in the way that writers understood addictive substances, and provides compelling evidence of the role of satire in shaping consumer culture.” -- Ian Newman * coeditor of Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture * “An engaging study on a significant topic that tracks the cultural anxieties of eighteenth-century Britain. It weaves together political, literary, economic, and cultural history with fine close readings contextualized within broader, theoretical discourse, and constitutes a distinguished contribution to thematic studies of eighteenth-century popular culture, consumption, and satire.” -- Barbara M. Benedict * author of Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry * Author InformationDayne 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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